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[00:00:49] WASHINGTON THIS HOUR. DEMOCRATS WILL TAKE CONTROL OF
[00:00:52] CONGRESS IN JANUARY. THEY ONLY REQUIRED THREE SEATS TO WIN THE HOUSE.
[00:00:55] SO FAR, THEY HAVE PICKED UP MORE
[00:00:58] THAN TWO DOZEN BUT IT COULD TAKE DAYS UNTIL ALL THE RACES ARE
[00:01:01] DECIDE. BUT IT'S THE SENATE WHERE THE
[00:01:04] DEMOCRATS MADE A LANDMARK BREAKTHROUGH, WINNING SEVEN SEATS FROM THE REPUBLICANS, ALL
[00:01:08] OF THEM TOSS-UPS GOING THEIR WAY.
[00:01:10] AND DEMOCRATS COULD WIN MORE BUILDING ON THAT SENATE
[00:01:13] MAJORITY.
[00:01:16] WE HAVE EXTENSIVE MIDTERM ELECTION COVERAGE FOR YOU THIS
[00:01:18] HOUR WITH OUR CBC NEWS TEAM, MARK CARCASOLE IS IN WASHINGTON
[00:01:22] LOOKING AT THE BIG PICTURE FOR US. CONTROL OF U.S. CONGRESS
[00:01:25] SHIFTING TO THE DEMOCRATS. MORNING LIVE HOST DAVID COMMON
[00:01:28] IS IN DETROIT LOOKING AT AMERICA'S FIRST MUSLIM SENATOR,
[00:01:32] DEMOCRAT ABDUL EL-SAYED.
[00:01:37] STEVE FUTTERMAN IS IN TEXAS
[00:01:40] INCLUDING JAMES TALARICO'S SENATE WIN AND MIKE CRAWLEY IS
[00:01:43] IN MAINE WHERE SUSAN COLLINS
[00:01:47] DEFEATED AFTER DECADES IN OFFICE. BEFORE WE HEAD TO THE UNITED
[00:01:50] STATES, WE WANT TO HEAD TO OTTAWA WHERE YOU CAN SEE
[00:01:53] CANADA'S MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR CANADA-U.S. TRADE, DOMINIC LeBLANC, IS SPEAKING.
[00:01:57] >> I WANT TO CONGRATULATE THE
[00:01:58] WOMEN AND MEN WHO WERE ELECTED
[00:02:01] TO THE U.S. CONGRESS, MANY INTERESTING RACES AT THE STATE
[00:02:04] LEVEL AS WELL.
[00:02:06] SO WE CONGRATULATE THOSE THAT WERE ELECTED.
[00:02:09] BUT OUR FOCUS HASN'T CHANGED.
[00:02:12] YESTERDAY WE WENT TO WORK ON
[00:02:14] ISSUES OF AFFORDABILITY FOR CANADIANS ON BUILDING MAJOR
[00:02:18] PROJECTS, ON STRENGTHENING THE CANADIAN ECONOMY, ON
[00:02:22] DIVERSIFYING OUR TRADING RELATIONSHIPS.
[00:02:23] THAT WAS OUR FOCUS YESTERDAY.
[00:02:28] THAT IS -- >> AArti: IT SOUNDS LIKE WE'VE
[00:02:37] TOMORROW. IT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT MOMENT
[00:02:40] FOR THE COUNTRY TO TAKE STOCK ECONOMICALLY.
[00:02:44] SO THAT WORK CONTINUES. ALSO I WOULD NOTE THAT THE
[00:02:47] PEOPLE ELECTED TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS LAST EVENING
[00:02:50] WON'T BE SEATED UNTIL JANUARY,
[00:02:54] SO THE CURRENT CONGRESS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE.
[00:02:57] AS WILL THE ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP WITH WHOM WE'RE
[00:03:00] HAVING OUR TRADE DISCUSSIONS. SO PERHAPS JUST IN FRENCH, AND
[00:03:04] THEN I'D BE VERY HAPPY TO TAKE
[00:03:05] YOUR QUESTIONS, OF COURSE.
[00:03:15] [ Voice of Interpreter ]... ELECTION RESULTS YESTERDAY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND
[00:03:19] THE SENATE.
[00:03:23] AS WELL AS THE ELECTIONS IN THE
[00:03:25] STATES AND THE GOVERNORS WHO
[00:03:28] WERE ELECTED. AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO
[00:03:32] CONTINUING TO WORK WITH THE U.S.
[00:03:35] ADMINISTRATION ON ISSUES OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO CANADA, BUT
[00:03:38] I THINK THAT WHAT WE NEED TO
[00:03:42] NOTE HERE IS IS THAT OR FOCUS
[00:03:44] YESTERDAY OF A GOVERNMENT WAS ON
[00:03:48] AFFORDABILITY AND BUILDING A
[00:03:54] RESILIENT AND INQUIRIES R
[00:03:56] DIVERSIFIED ECONOMY THROUGH DIVERSIFIED TRADE AND MORE
[00:03:59] PARTNERSHIPS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES AND THOSE WERE A FOCUS
[00:04:02] FOR THE GOVERNMENT YESTERDAY AND THEY REMAIN THE FOCUS FOR THE
[00:04:06] GOVERNMENT TODAY AND TOMORROW.
[00:04:09] TOMORROW, YOU WILL SEE THE
[00:04:11] FEDERAL BUDGET AND I THINK IT'S
[00:04:15] CLEAR THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS
[00:04:17] DETERMINED TO WORK ON ISSUES
[00:04:21] THAT DO NOT DEPEND ENTIRELY ON OUR DISCUSSIONS WITH THE UNITED
[00:04:25] STATES AND IN A SENSE, THE U.S.
[00:04:29] ELECTION RESULTS ARE INTERESTING BUT THEY DON'T MAKE ANY
[00:04:31] SIGNIFICANT IMPACT IN TERMS OF OUR FOCUS AND THE WORK BEING
[00:04:34] DONE BY OUR GOVERNMENT.
[00:04:37] HOWEVER, WE WILL BE OPEN TO
[00:04:41] PURSUING THOSE DISCUSSIONS WHICH
[00:04:42] HAVE BEEN PRODUCTIVE IN RECENT
[00:04:45] WEEKS WITH THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION UNDER Mr. TRUMP
[00:04:47] AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SPEAKING
[00:04:50] TO HOWARD LUTNICK AND JAMIESON
[00:04:52] GREER HOPEFULLY IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. >> Reporter:... AMERICANS REJECT
[00:04:56] THE IDEA OF TARIFFS, SO WHY ISN'T THIS CHANGING YOUR APPROACH?
[00:04:59] IS IT POSSIBLE TO GO BACK NOW
[00:05:00] AND SAY, LOOK, WE DON'T WANT ANY
[00:05:04] TARIFFS AT ALL? >> I THINK, ASHLEY, IT'S NOT
[00:05:07] PARTICULARLY CONSTRUCTIVE FOR CANADIANS TO INTERPRET RESULTS IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY'S ELECTION.
[00:05:11] WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO THAT.
[00:05:13] I HAVE EVERY CONFIDENCE THAT
[00:05:17] YOUR AMERICAN JOURNAL LIST COLLEAGUES WILL BE ASKING ALL OF
[00:05:19] THOSE QUESTIONS OVER THE NEXT NUMBER OF WEEKS.
[00:05:23] WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING AMERICANS INTERPRET THE RESULTS
[00:05:26] OF THEIR OWN ELECTIONS.
[00:05:28] IT'S NOT UP FOR CANADIANS TO TRY
[00:05:31] AND READ WHY PARTICULAR AMERICAN
[00:05:33] VOTERS WENT IN A PARTICULAR DIRECTION.
[00:05:36] OUR JOB IS TO FOCUS ON WHAT WE
[00:05:38] CAN CONTROL AND THAT'S TO WORK
[00:05:41] WITH THE PEOPLE THAT AMERICANS
[00:05:42] HAVE ELECTED AND IN THE CASE OF
[00:05:46] OUR TRADE CONVERSATIONS, THOSE ARE CONDUCTED AT THE LEVEL OF
[00:05:48] THE AMERICAN EXECUTIVE WITH
[00:05:51] CABINET SECRETARIES THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS IN HIS GOVERNMENT AND THEY REMAIN IN
[00:05:54] OFFICE TODAY AND THOSE ARE THE
[00:05:57] PEOPLE WITH WHOM WE'LL BE HAVING
[00:06:00] THOSE CONVERSATIONS.
[00:06:02] [ Speaking Simultaneously ]
[00:06:09] >> Reporter: DO YOU THINK THESE ELECTION RESULTS COULD CHANGE
[00:06:11] THE DYNAMIC IN CANADIAN TRADE RELATIONS? >> Voice of Interpreter: WE'LL SEE.
[00:06:15] IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS AND WEEKS,
[00:06:16] WE'LL SEE HOW THINGS EVOLVE.
[00:06:20] PERHAPS I DIDN'T MAKE THIS
[00:06:25] CLEAR, BUT AS FAR AS WE'RE CONCERNED THERE WILL BE NO CHANGE IN OUR APPROACH TO OUR
[00:06:27] TRADE NEGOTIATIONS.
[00:06:30] WE KNOW WHAT WE WANT IN TERMS OF
[00:06:35] AN AGREEMENT THAT IS IN THE ECONOMIC AGREEMENT OF CANADA AND
[00:06:39] STRENGTH ENS CANADA'S SOVEREIGNTY. FOR US, OUR APPROACH WILL NOT
[00:06:42] CHANGE AND WE DON'T INTEND TO
[00:06:45] SPECULATE ON THE APPROACH BEING
[00:06:49] TAKEN BY THE AMERICANS. IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS, I HOPE TO
[00:06:52] SPEAK TO HOWARD AND JAMIESON,
[00:06:57] BUT AGAIN THERE, WE ARE NOT
[00:07:01] RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WAY IN WHICH THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION CONDUCTS ITS CONVERSATIONS.
[00:07:05] WE'RE DOING OUR WORK.
[00:07:10] >> Reporter: [ Voice of Interpreter ] DOES THIS GIVE YOU MORE LEVERAGE? >> Voice of Interpreter: I GUESS
[00:07:13] WE'LL SEE IN A FEW WEEKS.
[00:07:17] THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE
[00:07:21] PRESIDENT AGREE TO WORK OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS TO TRY AND REACH
[00:07:24] A DEAL THAT IS IN THE ECONOMIC INTERESTS OF BOTH COUNTRIES AND
[00:07:28] I THINK Mr. CARNEY TALKED ABOUT
[00:07:32] THIS BEFORE HE LEFT AND THE FACT
[00:07:36] IS THAT, YES, SOME PROGRESS HAS
[00:07:41] BEEN MADE WEEKS BUT WE'RE, YOU
[00:07:47] KNOW, SPENDING OUR TIME IMAGINING WHERE OUR LEVERAGE IS
[00:07:50] OR WHY VOTERS IN THIS OR THAT
[00:07:56] STATE VOLT VOTED THE WAY THEY DID. OUR FOCUS IS TO CONTINUE AND
[00:07:59] THOSE DISCUSSIONS, AS I SAID,
[00:08:04] HAVE BEEN FAIRLY POSITIVE. BUT WE'RE NOT THERE YET.
[00:08:06] >> Reporter: YOUR COUNTERTARIFF STRATEGY WAS DESIGNED TO EXTRACT
[00:08:10] POLITICAL PRESSURE ON THE UNITED
[00:08:14] STATES. HOW CAN YOU SAY IF YOU DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE MORE LEVERAGE?
[00:08:17] THE WHOLE POINT OF THE COUNTERTARIFFS WAS TO TARGETED REPUBLICANS ON THE TARIFF
[00:08:21] QUESTION? >> YOU HAVEN'T SEEN ME SAY THAT.
[00:08:23] YOU'VE SEEN ME SAY THE REASON WE
[00:08:25] PUT IN COUNTERTARIFFS WERE TO PROTECT CANADIAN INDUSTRIES, AND
[00:08:28] NOT CREATE AN UNFAIR PLAYING
[00:08:31] FIELD WHERE SUDDENLY AN EXPORT TO THE UNITED STATES OF A
[00:08:34] PARTICULAR PRODUCT WAS FACING A HUGE AND IN SOME CASES
[00:08:37] PROHIBITIVE TARIFF AND THE SAME
[00:08:40] EXPORT WOULD COME IN TARIFF FREE TO THE CANADIAN MARKET.
[00:08:42] THE PURPOSE OF OUR TARIFFS WERE
[00:08:45] TO ADD TO THE PROTECTION OF
[00:08:48] CANADIAN INDUSTRIES AND CANADIAN WORKERS.
[00:08:51] HOW THEY WERE INTERPRETED BY
[00:08:52] AMERICAN VOTERS IS UP TO AMERICANS TO DISCUSS.
[00:08:55] [ Speaking Simultaneously ] >> Reporter: [ Voice of Interpreter ] CONSIDERING THIS
[00:08:59] NEW CONGRESS CAN CONCERNING THE PRESIDENT, WHY NOT USE THIS AS A
[00:09:01] WAY TO GET A BETTER DEAL AT THE TABLE?
[00:09:04] >> AGAIN, WHAT THE NEW CONGRESS
[00:09:07] MIGHT DECIDE TO DO, WHEN THEY'RE
[00:09:16] ALLISON UNIVERSITY TODAY. THAT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE THE
[00:09:19] WORK THAT WE HAVE TO DO IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.
[00:09:23] THE AMERICAN CONGRESS WILL ACT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN CONGRESS.
[00:09:26] OUR WORK WILL BE FOCUSED ON WHAT WE CAN DO HERE AT HOME. [ Speaking Simultaneously ]
[00:09:30] >> Reporter: YOU DON'T THINK
[00:09:30] YOU'RE ON BETTER FOOTING AT
[00:09:34] ALL? >> AArti: WE WERE LISTENING THERE TO THE MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR CANADA-U.S.
[00:09:37] TRADE, DOMINIC LeBLANC, AS HE WAS DISCUSSING AND TAKING
[00:09:41] QUESTIONS ABOUT THE RESULTS OF THOSE U.S. MIDTERM ELECTIONS.
[00:09:45] AGAIN, WE SAW BOTH THE HOUSE AND
[00:09:49] THE SENATE GO UNDER DEMOCRAT CONTROL. INTERESTING TO LISTEN IN TO
[00:09:53] MINISTER LeBLANC'S RESPONSES THERE, SAYING THAT IT'S AN IMPORTANT MOMENT FOR THE
[00:09:57] COUNTRY, THAT, OF COURSE, THE
[00:10:00] TALKS BETWEEN HIMSELF AND HIS
[00:10:02] U.S. COUNTERPARTS, JAMIESON GREER, HOWARD LUTNICK, AND HE
[00:10:06] SAYS THE PRESIDENT STILL REMAINS IN PLACE, THAT THEY ARE PROGRESSING AND THAT PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE.
[00:10:09] BUT WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S MORE LEVERAGE, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT
[00:10:12] THEY WILL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE
[00:10:14] HOW THINGS EVOLVE COME JANUARY
[00:10:18] AND PERHAPS AS TALKS CONTINUE ON AND THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE
[00:10:21] CONTINUING RIGHT NOW. I DO WANT TO POINT OUT TOO, AND
[00:10:24] CERTAINLY YOU CAN PERHAPS ADD A LITTLE DETAIL HERE, THAT THERE
[00:10:28] WAS A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THERE WAS STRATEGY WITH
[00:10:31] COUNTERMEASURES AND IF THAT WAS EFFECTIVE HERE, AND MINISTER
[00:10:33] LeBLANC ESSENTIALLY SAID, YOU
[00:10:35] NEVER HEARD ME SAY THAT. MÉLANIE JOLY DID MAKE A REMARK
[00:10:39] ABOUT STRATEGY AND BEING STRATEGIC WHEN IT CAME TO COUNTERTARIFFS.
[00:10:42] >> Reporter: INDEED. AND WE HEARD A PUSHBACK FROM THE
[00:10:46] U.S. ON THAT AND OTHER COMMENTS MADE BY CANADIAN OFFICIALS,
[00:10:50] CANADIAN COMMENTATORS, AARTI,
[00:10:52] WHICH PROMPTED ACCUSATIONS OF POTENTIAL MIDTERM ELECTION
[00:10:55] INTERFERENCE, SOMETHING THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT WAS AWARE OF
[00:10:59] IN TERMS OF THESE ACCUSATIONS BEING MADE AND CERTAINLY DID NOT
[00:11:02] WANT TO INTERFERE IN ANY WAY. TODAY WHAT WE ARE SEEING IS THIS
[00:11:05] IS ACTUALLY THE FIRST REACTION WE'RE GETTING FROM THE CANADIAN
[00:11:09] GOVERNMENT ON THE U.S. MIDTERM RESULTS.
[00:11:12] THE PRIME MINISTER IS NOT AT THE LIBERAL CAUCUS MEETING THIS MORNING.
[00:11:15] IT WAS NOT ON HIS ITINERARY. WE WERE THINKING MAYBE HE MIGHT SHOW UP.
[00:11:19] IN FACT, HE'S NOT PLANNING TO ATTEND. HE LANDED IN OTTAWA REALLY EARLY
[00:11:22] IN THE MORNING FROM HIS TRIP TO
[00:11:24] ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA SO THAT'S WHY HE'S NOT HERE.
[00:11:27] HE WAS AWAY FOR A MEETING WITH COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES. SO WE'RE HEARING FROM THE
[00:11:31] MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR CANADA-U.S. TRADE, DOMINIC LeBLANC, WHO SAYS HE WILL SPEAK
[00:11:35] TO HIS U.S. COUNTERPARTS SOON
[00:11:37] ABOUT THE TRADE TALKS THAT PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY AND U.S.
[00:11:40] PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAVE BOTH AGREED TO RAMP UP IN THE COMING WEEKS WITH THE HOPE OF LANDING A
[00:11:44] NEW TRADE DEAL. WHAT I NOTED FROM HIS OPENING
[00:11:48] REMARKS, LeBLANC'S OPENING REMARKS, TO REPORTERS THERE WAS
[00:11:50] THAT HE WENT OUT OF HIS WAY TO
[00:11:53] REMIND PEOPLE, THE CANADIAN
[00:11:55] PUBLIC, THAT THE PEOPLE WHO WERE ELECTED TO CONGRESS AND THE
[00:11:59] SENATE IN THE U.S., THEY DON'T ACTUALLY TAKE THEIR SEATS UNTIL
[00:12:02] JANUARY. AND HE POINTED OUT AS WELL THAT DONALD TRUMP REMAINS THE
[00:12:06] PRESIDENT IN THE U.S., THAT THAT ADMINISTRATION IS STILL IN
[00:12:10] PLACE, SO THAT'S WHO THE CANADIAN SIDE WILL STILL HAVE TO
[00:12:14] NEGOTIATE WITH MOVING FORWARD, EVEN IF THE DEMOCRATS, WHO HAVE
[00:12:18] BEEN ELECTED IN THIS BLUE TSUNAMI IN THE U.S., TRY TO
[00:12:21] STALL OR REVERSES SOME OF TRUMP'S POLICIES.
[00:12:25] THE PRESIDENT STILL HAS A VETO. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HERE IS VERY
[00:12:28] MUCH AWARE OF, AND SO THAT'S WHY
[00:12:31] I THINK WE'RE HEARING FROM LeBLANC THAT THE FOCUS FOR CANADA HAS NOT CHANGED IN TERMS
[00:12:35] OF ITS APPROACH AND THE WAY IT
[00:12:37] WANTS TO HANDLE THE COUNTRY'S PRIORITIES.
[00:12:40] THIS COUNTRY'S PRIORITIES MOVING FORWARD. WE HAVE THE FEDERAL BUDGET
[00:12:43] COMING OUT TOMORROW.
[00:12:59] OF COURSE TRY TO GET A NEW TRADE DEAL WITH THE U.S. WHICH REMAINS
[00:13:03] A MAJOR FOCUS, BUT LeBLANC
[00:13:06] MAKING IT CLEAR THAT IT'S NOT
[00:13:08] ENTIRELY CERTAIN WHAT THIS MEANS
[00:13:10] IN TERMS OF WHAT CANADA'S
[00:13:12] LEVERAGE WILL BE MOVING FORWARD
[00:13:15] AND WHETHER WE'LL SEE A MAJOR
[00:13:19] BENEFITS FROM THIS IN THE COMING WEEKS BUT OF COURSE THE U.S.
[00:13:23] MIDTERM RESULTS HAVE SENT A STRONG MESSAGE THAT AMERICANS
[00:13:26] ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S DIRECTION, SO
[00:13:29] IT SEEMED TO ME THAT THE MINISTER WAS REALLY LEAVING IT
[00:13:32] WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND COMMENTATORS DOWN THERE TO TRY
[00:13:35] TO MAKE THAT POINT CLEARER TO
[00:13:37] THE AMERICAN SIDE THAT THE TRUMP
[00:13:40] ADMINISTRATION TO TRY TO ADD MORE POLITICAL PRESSURE ON THEM
[00:13:42] TO REVERSE SOME OF THEIR POLICIES AND THAT MIGHT INCLUDE
[00:13:46] THE TARIFF POLICIES MOVING FORWARD BUT I THINK WE'LL HAVE
[00:13:47] TO WAIT AND SEE IF THAT WILL ACTUALLY HAPPEN SINCE THE U.S.
[00:13:51] PRESIDENT IS KNOWN TO BE VERY UNPREDICTABLE.
[00:13:53] >> AArti: OLIVIA, TOO, WE DID ALSO HEAR FROM MINISTER LeBLANC,
[00:13:57] WHICH YOU TOUCHED ON THAT ESSENTIALLY HE MADE VERY CLEAR WE ARE CONDUCTING OUR
[00:14:00] DISCUSSIONS WITH THE EXECUTIVE LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT, SOMETHING
[00:14:03] THAT HAS NOT CHANGED AS A RESULT OF THESE MIDTERM ELECTIONS.
[00:14:07] AND, IN FACT, THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER, PIERRE POILIEVRE,
[00:14:09] WAS ALSO GIVING REACTION AND WAS ASKED ABOUT ON WHETHER OR NOT
[00:14:13] THERE COULD BE CHANGE FOR CANADA AND CANADA'S POSITION WHEN IT COMES TO THIS TRADE WAR, GIVEN
[00:14:17] THE FACT THAT IT IS THE EXECUTIVE LEVEL THAT IS, IN
[00:14:20] FACT, IN CHARGE OF WHAT WE'RE SEEING WITH TARIFFS AND THIS
[00:14:22] TRADE WAR.
[00:14:25] LET'S QUICKLY LISTEN IN TO PIERRE POILIEVRE.
[00:14:29] >> IT DEPENDS HOW THE PRESIDENT MAKES HIS POLITICAL
[00:14:32] CALCULATIONS, BUT ONE THING IS FOR SURE, ANY PRESIDENT, FIRST
[00:14:35] OR SECOND TERM, EARLY OR LATE
[00:14:39] MANDATE, NEEDS AS MUCH GOODWILL FROM THE POPULATION TO GET
[00:14:42] ANYTHING DONE, AND WE HAVE THAT GOODWILL ON CANADA'S SIDE.
[00:14:46] SO I'M SAYING IS LET'S LEVERAGE
[00:14:48] THAT GOODWILL TO PRESSURE THE ADMINISTRATION AND CONGRESS TO
[00:14:52] REMOVE ALL THE TARIFFS, LOWER THE COST OF LIVING FOR
[00:14:55] AMERICANS, BUT ALSO BOOST JOBS
[00:14:58] AND BUSINESS FOR LONG STRUGGLING
[00:14:59] CANADIANS. >> AArti: WE WERE LISTENING IN
[00:15:03] THERE TO THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER. THAT AGAIN HIS FIRST REACTION TO
[00:15:07] FOLLOW THOSE MIDTERM ELECTION RESULT AS WELL. WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF WHAT WE
[00:15:10] HEARD FROM PIERRE POILIEVRE? >> Reporter: WELL, FROM WHAT WE
[00:15:14] HEARD FROM CONSERVATIVE LEADER PIERRE POILIEVRE THERE, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT HE IS URGING THE
[00:15:18] FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO USE THE
[00:15:19] MOMENTUM FROM THE MIDTERM
[00:15:22] RESULTS TO REMIND THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION THAT THE AMERICAN
[00:15:25] PEOPLE ARE UNHAPPY WITH THE
[00:15:28] DIRECTION THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS TAKEN THE
[00:15:31] COUNTRY, THAT BEING THE U.S., AND THAT THEY'RE UNHAPPY WITH
[00:15:35] THE TARIFF POLICIES FROM THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, WHICH IS
[00:15:39] MAKING LIFE MORE AFFORDABLE -- UNAFFORDABLE IN THE U.S.
[00:15:42] IT'S CAUSING BUSINESS UNCERTAINTY AND THEY DON'T LIKE THIS TRADE WAR ESSENTIALLY WITH
[00:15:46] THE U.S., SO I THINK WHAT WE'RE HEARING FROM THE CONSERVATIVE
[00:15:49] LEADER THERE, IS THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD USE
[00:15:51] THAT AND CONTINUE TO REMIND THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THIS
[00:15:54] TO GET THE BEST DEAL POSSIBLE FOR CANADA FOR NEW TRADE
[00:15:58] AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES. NOW, WE'VE ALREADY SEEN THE
[00:16:01] CANADIAN SIDE TRY TO DO THIS. IT'S BEEN REMINDING THE
[00:16:04] AMERICANS FOR QUITE SOME TIME,
[00:16:08] AARTI, THAT TARIFFS HURT AMERICANS AND THEY DO MAKE LIFE
[00:16:11] MORE UNAFFORDABLE FOR THEIR OWN
[00:16:14] CITIZENS, AND YET WE HAVE SEEN
[00:16:15] THE U.S. PRESIDENT CONTINUE DOWN HIS TARIFF POLICIES, SO WE'LL
[00:16:19] HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE IF THE RESULTS FROM LAST NIGHT WILL
[00:16:22] CHANGE HIS MIND. >> AArti: OLIVIA, THANK YOU FOR THIS.
[00:16:25] THAT IS THE CBC'S OLIVIA STEFANOVICH IN OTTAWA.
[00:16:29] WE WANT TO HEAD BACK TO THE U.S. CAPITOL BECAUSE THE POLITICAL
[00:16:32] GROUND WILL SHIFT IN A SIGNIFICANT WAY FOR TRUMP IN
[00:16:35] JANUARY WHEN THE DEMOCRATS TAKE OVER CONGRESS. SO WHAT WILL THAT MEAN GOING FORWARD?
[00:16:39] LET'S GO TO THE CBC'S MARK CARCASOLE WHO JOINS US LIVE FROM CAPITOL HILL.
[00:16:43] HEY, MARK. SO THE DEMOCRATS BREAKTHROUGH IN
[00:16:46] PLACES WHERE TRUMP WON BY DOUBLE DIGITS TWO YEARS AGO IS EXTRAORDINARY.
[00:16:50] WHAT DO THEY DO NOW WITH THIS POWER? >> Reporter: THERE ARE MANY
[00:16:54] OPTIONS, MANY POWERS BEFORE THEM, AARTI. WHETHER THEY CAN PROPERLY
[00:16:57] EXERCISE THEM, THAT'S ANOTHER QUESTION. THERE'S A LOT OF POTENTIAL FOR
[00:17:00] THEM TO CREATE SOME REAL CHANGE IF ESSENTIALLY EVERYTHING GOES THEIR WAY.
[00:17:04] AND THEN THERE'S A LOT OF POTENTIAL FOR THEM TO DEADLOCK
[00:17:08] CONGRESS. AND EITHER WAY, THAT IS A STRATEGY IN ITSELF.
[00:17:11] NOW THAT THEY HAVE FULL CONTROL OF CONGRESS AND THE HOUSE AND
[00:17:15] THE SENATE, THE DEMOCRATS DO HAVE THE POWER TO PASS THEIR OWN LEGISLATION.
[00:17:19] HOWEVER, ANYTHING THEY DO PASS HAS TO RECEIVE PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL.
[00:17:21] THAT IN ITSELF IS A HURDLE. WE WILL GET A LITTLE BIT MORE
[00:17:24] INTO THAT ASPECT OF THINGS IN A LITTLE BIT.
[00:17:26] BUT THEY ALSO HAVE THE POWER TO
[00:17:29] BLOCK ANY REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURE THAT COMES THEIR WAY. AND THAT IS WHERE I TALK ABOUT
[00:17:33] THE STRATEGY OF THEM BOGGING
[00:17:35] THINGS DOWN IN CONGRESS.
[00:17:38] THAT IS ONE POTENTIAL THING THEY CAN LOOK AT. IN ADDITION TO THOSE LEGISLATIVE
[00:17:41] POWERS, THE DEMOCRATS HAVE THE ABILITY TO LAUNCH INVESTIGATIONS
[00:17:45] AGAINST THE PRESIDENT AND HIS ASSOCIATES, SUBJECT THEM TO
[00:17:48] CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT. PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FAMILY MEMBERS
[00:17:50] ARE EXPECTED TO, AT SOME POINT,
[00:17:52] COME UNDER CONGRESSIONAL
[00:17:57] OVERSIGHT.
[00:17:58] HIS SONS DON, HIS SON-IN-LAW,
[00:18:02] JARED KUSHNER, THEIR BUSINESS
[00:18:03] TIES WILL BE SCRUTINIZED MORE
[00:18:07] CLOSELY. ROBERT GARCIA, WHO'S EXPECTED TO BECOME CHAIR OF THE HOUSE
[00:18:11] OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE HAS MADE IT CLEAR THAT IS A PRIORITY TO HIM.
[00:18:13] YESTERDAY ON "X" HE POSTED A SIMPLE CAPITALIZED TWO-WORD
[00:18:16] TWEET THAT SUMMARIZED EVERYTHING WHEN HE TOLD PRESIDENT TRUMP AND
[00:18:20] HIS ASSOCIATES, QUOTE, "LAWYER UP."
[00:18:23] NOW, WITH THE POWERS BEFORE THEM, WITH THE LANDSCAPE AHEAD
[00:18:26] OF THEM, HAKEEM JEFFRIES, WHO IS
[00:18:29] SET TO BE THE NEXT SPEAKER OF
[00:18:30] THE HOUSE, IS A NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE. HE IS THE FIRST BLACK PERSON IN
[00:18:34] HISTORY TO BECOME HOUSE SPEAKER, SAYS THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE A
[00:18:38] LOT OF PLANS. THEY HAVE A WIDE AGENDA.
[00:18:40] HE SPOKE TO CNN LATE THIS MORNING TALKING ABOUT EXACTLY
[00:18:44] WHAT'S ON THAT DEMOCRAT AGENDA.
[00:18:46] >> WE NOW HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY
[00:18:50] TO GOVERN ON AFFORDABILITY, TO
[00:18:52] LOWER THE HIGH COST OF ALL THE THINGS, THE HIGH COSTS OF
[00:18:56] GROCERIES, THE HIGH COST OF HOUSING, THE HIGH COST OF GAS.
[00:18:59] WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT TO MAKE
[00:19:02] HEALTHCARE AFFORDABLE FOR EVERY
[00:19:04] SINGLE AMERICAN SO THAT PEOPLE
[00:19:06] CAN ACTUALLY AFFORD TO GO SEE A
[00:19:09] DOCTOR WHEN THEY NEED ONE.
[00:19:12] >> Reporter: SO GIVEN SOME OF THE FACTORS THAT I'VE LAID OUT
[00:19:15] FOR YOU ALREADY, THERE'S SOME IMMEDIATE DIFFICULTY THERE.
[00:19:18] THERE'S ALSO THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATS DON'T TAKE CONTROL OF
[00:19:21] CONGRESS UNTIL JANUARY. SO THE REPUBLICANS WHO CURRENTLY
[00:19:25] CONTROL CONGRESS STILL HAVE ESSENTIALLY TWO MONTHS TO DO WHAT THEY NEED TO DO.
[00:19:28] AMERICANS WILL CERTAINLY BE WATCHING CLOSELY TO SEE WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT.
[00:19:31] THERE'S ALSO THE FACT THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP STILL RETAINS
[00:19:35] EXECUTIVE POWER. AND THAT HE CAN GOVERN BY EXECUTIVE ORDER.
[00:19:37] WE'VE SEEN HIM DO THAT MULTIPLE TIMES OVER THE FIRST TWO YEARS
[00:19:41] OF THIS TERM WHERE HE CAN LAUNCH AN EXECUTIVE ORDER AND
[00:19:44] ESSENTIALLY SKIRT AROUND CONGRESS TO GET DONE WHAT HE WANTS TO GET DONE.
[00:19:47] CASE IN POINT: THE TARIFFS AGAINST CANADA AND OTHER
[00:19:51] COUNTRIES, THE TRADE WAR, ALL OF
[00:19:52] THAT CAME FROM EXECUTIVE ORDERS. >> AArti: MARK, DEMOCRATS ARE
[00:19:56] ALSO TALKING ABOUT USING THEIR CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITY TO PUSH
[00:19:59] BACK AT TRUMP'S TRADE WAR ON CANADA, SOMETHING, OF COURSE, CANADIANS WILL BE WATCHING
[00:20:03] CLOSELY. WHAT MIGHT WE EXPECT TO SEE HAPPEN?
[00:20:07] >> Reporter: THIS WON'T BE THE FIRST TIME THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE COME OUT AND SAID THAT THEY
[00:20:10] WANT TO SOFTEN OR COMPLETELY GET RID OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S TARIFFS.
[00:20:14] THEY'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR SOME TIME.
[00:20:17] THERE HAVE BEEN SOME SYMBOLISTIC
[00:20:21] BILLS, IF YOU WILL, WHICH THEY KNEW PROBABLY WOULDN'T PASS BUT THEY WERE PUT OUT THERE JUST TO
[00:20:24] SHOW A SYMBOL OF THEIR INTENT
[00:20:27] AND ALSO WITHIN THE LAST WEEK OR SO, JUST LAST WEEKEND, SENATOR
[00:20:30] RON WIDEN, THE TOP DEMOCRAT ON THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE,
[00:20:33] TOLD REPORTERS, QUOTE, "ONE OF THE MOST OBVIOUS PRIORITIES
[00:20:37] WOULD BE REPEALING TRUMP'S TARIFFS ON CANADA WHICH ARE
[00:20:40] RAISING PRICE AND IS HARMING COMMUNITIES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER."
[00:20:43] NOW HERE'S THE OTHER WRINKLE. PRESIDENT TRUMP STILL RETAINS
[00:20:47] VETO POWER AND EVEN THOUGH THEY CONTROL CONGRESS NOW, THE
[00:20:50] DEMOCRATS DO NOT HAVE THE TWO-THIRDS SUPER MAJORITY REQUIRED TO GET AROUND VETO
[00:20:54] UNLESS, OF COURSE, THEY CAN GET SOME REPUBLICANS ON THEIR SIDE
[00:20:58] IN THESE CRUCIAL VOTES TO GET
[00:21:00] AROUND THAT VETO, GET TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY. IT IS CONCEIVABLE.
[00:21:04] IT'S NOT OUTSIDE THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY THAT SOME REPUBLICANS MIGHT DO THAT, GIVEN
[00:21:08] THESE ARE AFFORDABILITY AND COST OF LIVING MEASURES AND THAT WAS
[00:21:11] SUCH AN IMPORTANT PRIORITY FOR VOTERS IN THESE MID-TERMS.
[00:21:14] SO WE'LL SEE HOW REPUBLICANS VOTE THERE.
[00:21:18] PRESIDENT TRUMP, FOR HIS PART, KNOWS THAT HE HAS THIS VETO
[00:21:21] POWER AND HE MADE IT CLEAR ON FOX NEWS LAST NIGHT, HE PLANS TO
[00:21:23] USE IT. >> President Donald Trump: IT'S
[00:21:27] BEEN DONE BEFORE, AS YOU KNOW, NUMEROUS TIMES. IT'S THE POWER OF VETO.
[00:21:31] IT'S ONE OF THE STRONGER POWERS
[00:21:33] THAT A PRESIDENT HAS, AND THEY'LL SEND OVER THINGS THAT
[00:21:36] ARE INSANE AND I'LL VETO THEM AND AFTER A COUPLE OF MONTHS OF
[00:21:40] VETOES, THEY'LL CALL AND THEY'LL
[00:21:42] SAY, HOW DO WE GET THIS STUFF DONE? AND WE'LL WORK TOGETHER.
[00:21:45] I HAVE A LOT OF FRIEND THAT ARE DEMOCRATS, BELIEVE IT OR NOT.
[00:21:49] >> Reporter: HE SAID PREVIOUSLY THAT IF THE REPUBLICANS LOST
[00:21:52] CONGRESS, HE WOULD TURN INTO Mr. VETO AND PERHAPS LAST NIGHT
[00:21:55] ON SOCIAL MEDIA, WE SAW THE FIRST SIGN OF THAT TRANSITION
[00:21:58] WHEN HE POST THIS HAD PHOTO, A
[00:22:00] RED MAGA STYLE BALL CAP BUT INSTEAD OF SAYING "MAKE AMERICA
[00:22:04] GREAT AGAIN" THE WORD EMBR
[00:22:07] EMBROIDERED IN CAPITAL LETTERS, "VETO."
[00:22:10] WE DON'T KNOW IF WE WILL HEAR FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP ON SOCIAL
[00:22:12] MEDIA OR IN PERSON.
[00:22:14] THE OFFICIAL ITINERARY SAYS HE HAS NO PUBLIC EVENTS SCHEDULED.
[00:22:18] >> AArti: THAT IS THE CBC'S MARK CARCASOLE IN WASHINGTON. ONE
[00:22:21] RACES WHERE CANADA AND DONALD TRUMP'S TARIFFS WERE PLAYING A
[00:22:24] KEY ROLE WAS MICHIGAN.
[00:22:26] IN THE END, IT WAS A DECISIVE
[00:22:29] VICTORY FOR DEMOCRAT ABDUL
[00:22:34] EL-SAYED OVER GOP CANDIDATE MIKE ROGERS.
[00:22:37] DAVID COMMON JOINS US FROM DETROIT.
[00:22:38] YOU'VE HAD A LONG NIGHT.
[00:22:41] YOU WERE COVERING EL-SAYED AND THAT VICTORY PARTY.
[00:22:44] IT LOOKS LIKE THE MIKE ROGERS AD WITH SIPPING LABATT'S AND
[00:22:48] WATCHING HOCKEY DIDN'T NECESSARILY GO FAR ENOUGH.
[00:22:51] IT WAS A RESOUNDING VICTORY FOR EL-SAYED LAST NIGHT.
[00:22:54] WHAT STOOD OUT TO YOU? >> Reporter: WELL, IN MANY WAYS,
[00:22:57] LOOK, THIS IS NOT A STATE THAT HAS SENT A REPUBLICAN TO THE
[00:23:01] SENATE IN A NUMBER OF YEARS, SO
[00:23:03] IT WAS IN SOME WAYS ABDUL
[00:23:06] EL-SAYED'S TO LOSE. HAVING SAID THAT, IT WAS A LOT
[00:23:10] CLOSER THAN MANY OTHER RACES OFTEN ARE.
[00:23:12] IT'S WHY IT WASN'T CALLED OR
[00:23:14] PROJECTED UNTIL ABOUT 2, 2:30 A.M., WHEN A NUMBER OF OTHER
[00:23:18] STATES HAD ALREADY CALLED THEIRS. IT SPEAKS TO HOW CLOSE THIS RACE
[00:23:21] HAS BECOME. BUT ALSO, HOW DECISIVE THAT ROLE
[00:23:24] OF TARIFFS, PARTICULARLY TARIFFS
[00:23:26] OP CANADA, HAD BEEN IN THE
[00:23:29] ENTIRETY OF THIS CAMPAIGN. ABDUL EL-SAYED REPRESENTS A
[00:23:32] PROGRESSIVE VOICE, THE FIRST
[00:23:34] MUSLIM IN THE SENATE, BUT ALSO A
[00:23:37] CHANGE IN A GENERATION THAT YOU LOOK AT THE MAKEUP OF THE U.S. SENATE.
[00:23:41] MANY ARE OLD.
[00:23:42] SOME HAVE BEEN IN THERE 70s,
[00:23:46] 80s, BEYOND THAT. HE IS IN HIS 40s AND HE MOVES
[00:23:49] TOWARDS A SIX-YEAR TERM. HE HAS PROMISED TO GET RID OF DUMB TARIFFS.
[00:23:53] THE MECHANISM THROUGH WHICH HE
[00:23:55] DOES THAT GETS A BIT MORE
[00:23:59] COMPLICATED. HE PROMISED TO BY BEFORE I A NEW
[00:24:01] ERA TO WASHINGTON IN HIS VICTORY SPEECH LAST NIGHT.
[00:24:04] >> MICHIGAN, WE DID IT!
[00:24:06] [ Cheering ] THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN POINTING TO
[00:24:10] MY NAME AND MY FAITH BUT WE ALL
[00:24:12] MY NAME AND MY FAITH AREN'T THE REAP YOU CAN'T AFFORD YOUR GAS.
[00:24:15] NOT THE REASON YOU CAN'T AFFORD YOUR GROCERIES. NOT THE REASON YOU CAN'T SEE A
[00:24:19] DOCTOR. WE SHOWED THAT IN A BATTLE
[00:24:22] BETWEEN THE MONEY AND THE MANY,
[00:24:24] THAT THE MANY REALLY CAN WIN.
[00:24:27] >> Reporter: FOR A SERIES OF
[00:24:29] REASONS, EL-SAYED BECAME PERHAPS
[00:24:31] THE MOST NOTABLE RACE IN THE
[00:24:35] ENTIRE MIDTERM CAMPAIGN NATIONALLY.
[00:24:38] HAVING SAID THAT, THE GOVERNOR RACE ALSO A VERY INTERESTING ONE.
[00:24:41] THATS ARE GOING TO A DEMOCRAT
[00:24:43] AND THE INCOMING GOVERNOR HAS
[00:24:45] SAID SHE WOULD BE OPEN TO DOING
[00:24:48] A ONE-ON-ONE STATE-ON-PROVINCE
[00:24:51] DEAL, MICHIGAN-ONTARIO, IF THEY
[00:24:52] CAN'T GET THE TARIFFS PULLED OFF AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL.
[00:24:55] THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW YOU DO THAT BECAUSE
[00:24:59] BORDERS ARE IN BOTH CANADA AND THE U.S. REGULATED BY NATIONAL LEVEL AUTHORITIES.
[00:25:02] BUT EVEN THE NOTION THAT SHE IS FLOATING SOMETHING LIKE THAT
[00:25:06] SPEAKS TO HOW CANADA AND TARIFFS PLAYED SUCH A KEY ROLE OVER THE COURSE OF THE CAMPAIGN HERE IN
[00:25:10] MICHIGAN. >> AArti: BUT, OF COURSE, WE KNOW THAT DONALD TRUMP, AS WE'VE
[00:25:14] BEEN DISCUSSING, IS ALREADY
[00:25:17] TAKING AND TALKING ABOUT VETO
[00:25:21] ACTION, IF ANY LEGISLATION
[00:25:22] CROSSES HIS DESK HE DOESN'T LIKE.
[00:25:25] WITH MICHIGAN ON THE BORDER, SO CONCERNED WITH THE AUTO INDUSTRY
[00:25:28] AND STEEL AND ALUMINUM, WHAT
[00:25:31] EFFECT COULD EL-SAYED'S WIN HAVE WITH THE TARIFFS ON CANADA?
[00:25:34] >> Reporter: IT CERTAINLY GIVES FOCUS TO THE IDEA OF COST OF
[00:25:37] LIVING AND HOW TARIFFS HAVE INFLUENCED AND INCREASED THE
[00:25:40] COST OF LIVING FOR MANY AMERICANS. THEY WILL GO TO WASHINGTON WITH
[00:25:43] THAT MESSAGE WHEN THEY TAKE POWER IN JANUARY.
[00:25:45] WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SEE THE
[00:25:48] DEGREE TO WHICH IT BECOMES A CORE FOCUS FOR THE DEMOCRATS
[00:25:52] UPON THEIR ASSUMPTION OF POWER. I MEAN, I WOULD NOTE EL-SAYED
[00:25:56] HAS HIMSELF SAID HE SUPPORTS TARIFFS.
[00:25:59] HE JUST DOESN'T LIKE THESE
[00:26:02] PARTICULAR TARIFFS WHICH HE'S CALLED DUMB. THE QUESTION FOR CANADIANS AND THE CANADIAN NEGOTIATING TEAM
[00:26:06] LOOKING AT TRYING TO GET A TRADE DEAL AS THESE TALKS HAVE STARTED
[00:26:09] TO PROGRESS IN MORE RECENT
[00:26:11] WEEKS, DO WE NOW CONTINUE THAT GO-SLOW APPROACH?
[00:26:15] DOES THE CARNEY GOVERNMENT PERHAPS WAIT OUT THE TRUMP
[00:26:19] ADMINISTRATION? I ACTUALLY SPOKE WITH ROB RUSSO
[00:26:23] ABOUT IT THIS MORNING. HE IS THE CANADA CORRESPONDENT
[00:26:25] FOR "THE ECONOMIST." >> THE RISK IS THAT DONALD TRUMP
[00:26:29] REMAINS PRESIDENT AND REMAINS
[00:26:30] THE MAN WHO IS IN CHARGE OF
[00:26:33] TRADE POLICY FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
[00:26:34] HE STILL HAS THE POWER TO
[00:26:38] SIGNIFICANTLY DAMAGE CANADA'S ECONOMY.
[00:26:39] I THINK WHAT WE SHOULD WATCH FOR
[00:26:42] NOW IS THOSE IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WHO ARE GOING TO BE LEFT,
[00:26:46] ARE THEY BITTER ENDERS?
[00:26:48] ARE THEY MAGA TRUMP REPUBLICANS?
[00:26:53] HE'S HAD THEM IN A HEAD LOCK FOR
[00:26:56] MORE THAN A DEADLOCK.
[00:26:58] THEIR CHOICE IS FEEALTY OR TO GO
[00:27:05] DOWN. >> Reporter: LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT ON A LEGISLATIVE LEVEL.
[00:27:09] TRUMP HAS THAT VETO PEN OR SHARPIE, BECAUSE HE USES A SHARPIE MORE OFTEN.
[00:27:13] IF THE DEMOCRATS TRY TO BRING IN LEGISLATION TO GET RID OF THE
[00:27:16] TARIFFS, HE COULD JUST WIPE IT AWAY. THEY DON'T HAVE THE SUPERMAJORITY, THE TWO-THIRDS
[00:27:20] YOU NEED TO OVERRIDE A PRESIDENTIAL VETO.
[00:27:23] BUT IF ENOUGH REPUBLICAN MEMBERS IN CONGRESS SAID, NOW, HOLD ON A
[00:27:27] SECOND, WE'VE GOT THE MESSAGE.
[00:27:30] WE WANT THE TARIFFS GONE TOO AND THEY JOIN THE DEMOCRATS OR EVEN
[00:27:33] THREATEN TO JOIN THE DEMOCRATS,
[00:27:36] THAT MIGHT BE ONE WAY IN WHICH TARIFFS, NOT JUST AGAINST
[00:27:39] CANADA, BUT GLOBALLY, START TO FALL, AARTI.
[00:27:42] >> AArti: THANKS FOR THIS,
[00:27:46] DAVID. THE CBC'S DAVID COMMON IN DETROIT. FROM DETROIT, WE WANT TO TAKE
[00:27:49] YOU TO MONTRÉAL NOW. FINANCE MINISTER FRANCOIS-PHILLIPE CHAMPAGNE IS
[00:27:52] TRYING ON A NEW PAIR OF SHOES AS
[00:27:55] A TRADITION BEFORE THE FEDERAL BUDGET IS UNVEILED, WHICH IS HAPPENING TOMORROW.
[00:27:59] HE'S SPEAKING WITH REPORTERS. LET'S LISTEN IN TO HIS REMARKS. >> I WAS SAYING, FIRST OF ALL,
[00:28:02] THANK YOU FOR HOSTING ME. IT'S A REAL -- I'M PROUD.
[00:28:06] I'M EVEN EMOTIONAL. BECAUSE I SEE YOU.
[00:28:08] I SEE WHAT YOU'VE BUILT.
[00:28:11] AND THE QUESTION WAS AROUND WHAT CANADIANS CAN EXPECT TOMORROW
[00:28:15] AND I SAID, AFFORDABILITY IS TOP OF MIND.
[00:28:19] IF WE GO IN THE STREETS, IT'S
[00:28:20] THE PRICE OF RENT, THE PRICE OF
[00:28:23] FOOD, THE PRICE OF GAS. THAT'S A REALITY FOR CANADIANS
[00:28:27] EVERY OTHER DAY OF THE WEEK, EVERY MONTH.
[00:28:29] WE'VE ALREADY TAKEN A NUMBER OF
[00:28:33] STEPS TO SUPPORT CANADIANS WITH AFFORDABILITY. THEY UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, WE
[00:28:35] OFTEN SAY, IT'S LIKE A BOOST IN THE BRIDGE.
[00:28:39] A BOOST TODAY BECAUSE ECONOMIES THAT ARE DOING WELL LIKE THE
[00:28:42] CANADIAN ECONOMY HAVE THE FISCAL CAPACITY, THE FISCAL DISCIPLINE,
[00:28:45] TO SAY, WE'RE GOING TO SUPPORT.
[00:28:46] WE'VE ALREADY TAKEN A NUMBER OF
[00:28:50] MEASURES TO SUPPORT CANADIANS.
[00:28:53] BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THEY UNDERSTAND THAT WE NEED TO
[00:28:55] SUPPORT THEM NOW AND INVEST IN OUR FUTURE AND GROWTH,
[00:28:58] SUPPORTING SMALL AND MEDIUM
[00:29:00] SIZED BUSINESSES. THE PRODUCTIVITY MEGA DEDUCTION,
[00:29:03] YOU SEE WHENEVER YOU INVEST IN MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT, THAT'S THE BOOST.
[00:29:07] WE WANT TO CREATE AN INVESTMENT SUPER CYCLE TO HELP BUSINESSES
[00:29:10] LIKE YOURS AND I WAS ALSO TALKING ABOUT THOSE, YOU KNOW,
[00:29:14] WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN THERE FOR INDUSTRIES AND SECTORS, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE IN THE AUTO
[00:29:17] INDUSTRY TODAY. IT'S DIFFICULT. STEEL, ALUMINUM, FORESTRY
[00:29:20] SECTOR, WE'VE ANNOUNCED A NUMBER OF MEASURES.
[00:29:23] BUT I WANT TO SAY THAT CLEARLY, WE'RE GOING TO THINK ABOUT
[00:29:26] AFFORDABILITY WHERE CANADIANS ARE AND HOW WE HAVE BEEN THERE FOR THEM.
[00:29:30] AND AT THE SAME TIME, MAKING
[00:29:33] SURE WE BUILD THE FUTURE IN TERMS OF GROWTH AND TALK ALSO
[00:29:37] ABOUT OUR SOVEREIGNTY AND SO I
[00:29:39] THINK CANADIANS, LIKE YOU, WILL
[00:29:42] SEE THEMSELVES IN THIS BUDGET,
[00:29:44] SEE THAT CANADA IS A COUNTRY
[00:29:47] WHICH IS -- THE TITLE FROM YOU WAS VERY PROFOUND WHEN WE CHOSE
[00:29:50] THAT.
[00:29:51] I COME FROM SHAWINIGAN.
[00:29:54] WE KNOW THAT WHEN ENERGY AND
[00:29:58] AMBITION MEETS TOGETHER YOU DO GREAT THINGS. THAT'S THE ESSENCE, WE WANT TO
[00:30:01] BE MASTERS OF OUR DESTINY AND IN ORDER TO DO THAT, YOU NEED TO
[00:30:04] INVEST IN GROWTH AND TAKE CARE OF PEOPLE AND YOU ALSO NEED TO
[00:30:07] PROTECT YOUR SOVEREIGNTY. I THINK TOMORROW CANADIANS WILL
[00:30:10] SEE THEMSELVES IN THAT BUDGET.
[00:30:13] >> Reporter: ON THE U.S. MID-TERMS, DO THE RESULTS
[00:30:16] STRENGTHEN CANADA'S NEGOTIATING POSITION? >> WELL, WE WOULD SAY AS YOU
[00:30:19] MIGHT APPRECIATE, MY FOCUS IS
[00:30:21] VERY MUCH ON THE BUDGET, AND THE
[00:30:23] TITLE OF THE BUDGET FOR ME IS VERY PROFOUND IN TERMS OF WHEN
[00:30:27] YOU SAY MASTERS OF OUR DESTINY.
[00:30:30] WHATEVER HAPPENS SOUTH OR SOMEWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD, WE
[00:30:33] NEED TO BE MORE RESILIENT, MORE INDEPENDENT.
[00:30:35] WE NEED TO OPEN UP NEW MARKETS.
[00:30:39] WE NEED TO BUILD ONE ECONOMY AND BUY CANADIAN.
[00:30:42] WE'RE GOING TO BE ON A STRONG
[00:30:45] FOOTING REGARDLESS BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE KIND OF INVESTMENTS THAT
[00:30:48] WE NEED TO MAKE, AND A STRONG CANADA IS A BETTER CANADA.
[00:30:51] AT ANY NEGOTIATING TABLE.
[00:30:55] BECAUSE WE HAVE THE STRENGTH TO INVEST AND WE HAVE THE
[00:30:57] DISCIPLINE TO DELIVER ON THE SAME -- I THINK CANADIANS HAVE
[00:31:01] SEEN WE LIVE IN A VERY VOLATILE,
[00:31:04] VERY COMPLEX ENVIRONMENT. AND STRENGTHENING WHO WE ARE,
[00:31:08] CELEBRATING WHO WE ARE AS CANADIANS, I THINK THAT'S WHAT
[00:31:09] PEOPLE WANT TO SEE NOW.
[00:31:12] >> AArti: WE'VE BEEN LISTENING
[00:31:15] THERE TO FINANCE MINISTER FRANCOIS-PHILLIPE CHAMPAGNE SPEAKING IN MONTRÉAL, PLAYING
[00:31:19] OUT THAT TRADITION THAT TAKES PLACE THE DAY BEFORE THE BUDGET
[00:31:22] IS UNVEILED WHERE HE IS GETTING A NEW PAIR OF SHOES.
[00:31:25] I WANT TO BRING IN ONCE AGAIN THE CBC'S OLIVIA STEFANOVICH.
[00:31:28] SHE HAS BEEN LISTENING IN. A REAL FOCUS ON AFFORDABILITY,
[00:31:32] EVEN WHEN ASKED A QUESTION ABOUT THOSE U.S. MIDTERM ELECTIONS,
[00:31:35] SAYING, WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT WE CAN DO HERE AT HOME.
[00:31:38] BUT, OF COURSE, ALSO HELP FOR SECTORS THAT HAVE BEEN IMPACTED
[00:31:42] BY THE TARIFFS HERE FROM THE FINANCE MINISTER OR WHAT MIGHT
[00:31:44] WE BE ABLE TO LOOK AHEAD TO FOR TOMORROW? >> Reporter: WELL, ANOTHER BIG
[00:31:48] WORD THAT STOOD OUT TO ME WHILE THE FINANCE MINISTER WAS
[00:31:52] SPEAKING THERE WAS "SOVE "SOVEREIGNTY."
[00:31:56] THE FINANCE MINISTER, FRANCOIS-PHILLIPE CHAMPAGNE, SAYS WE CAN EXPECT A BUDGET
[00:32:00] TOMORROW, THE SECOND UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP AS FINANCE MINISTER AND PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY'S
[00:32:04] GOVERNMENT.
[00:32:05] WE CAN EXPECT A BUDGET THAT IS FOCUSED ON STRENGTHENING THE
[00:32:09] COUNTRY'S SOVEREIGNTY AND
[00:32:12] BECOMING LESS RELIANT ON OTHER
[00:32:15] COUNTRIES SUCH AS THE U.S. THE FINANCE MINISTER DIDN'T TALK
[00:32:18] A LOT THERE ABOUT THE U.S. OR
[00:32:19] THE MIDTERM RESULTS BUT IT IS
[00:32:22] CLEAR THAT NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS MOVING FORWARD BETWEEN
[00:32:25] CANADA AND THE U.S., EVEN IF WE GET AN AMAZING DEAL ON THE NEXT
[00:32:28] COUPLE OF WEEKS, AN AMAZING NEW TRADE DEAL, IT'S CLEAR THAT THE
[00:32:32] FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WANTS TO
[00:32:33] CONTINUE DOWN THIS PATH OF
[00:32:36] DIVERSIFYING ITS TRADING RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER
[00:32:39] COUNTRIES AND STRENGTHENING
[00:32:42] PARTNERSHIPS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES AS WELL BECAUSE THIS
[00:32:45] WHOLE EXPERIENCE WITH THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS FRANKLY BEEN
[00:32:49] A WAKE-UP CALL FOR OTTAWA THAT
[00:32:51] IT SHOWS THAT THE U.S. IS AN UNRELIABLE PARTNER AND AGAIN,
[00:32:55] EVEN IF THERE IS A DEAL IN THE COMING WEEKS OR MONTHS, AARTI,
[00:32:58] IT'S NOT CLEAR THAT THE U.S.
[00:33:00] ADMINISTRATION WILL ACTUALLY FOLLOW THROUGH AND RESPECT THAT
[00:33:04] DEAL MOVING FORWARD AS WELL. THAT'S STILL AN OPEN QUESTION MARK.
[00:33:07] SO YOU KNOW, THE BUDGET THAT I THINK WE ARE EXPECTING TOMORROW
[00:33:11] AS THE FINANCE MINISTER PREVIEWED THERE IS GOING TO BE
[00:33:14] FOCUSED ON WHAT CANADA CAN CONTROL MOVING FORWARD AND
[00:33:17] INVESTMENTS THAT CANADA CAN MAKE TO STRENGTHEN THE ECONOMY HERE,
[00:33:21] TO IMPROVE AFFORDABILITY FOR CANADIANS. THERE ARE STILL TARIFFS IN PLACE
[00:33:25] AND THERE'S NO INDICATION THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE COMPLETELY
[00:33:28] ELIMINATED OR EVEN REVERSED WITH THE MIDTERM RESULT LAST NIGHT.
[00:33:31] SO THE FOCUS ON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MOVING FORWARD IS HOW
[00:33:35] TO LOWER THE COSTS FOR CANADIANS AND ATTRACT MORE INVESTMENT
[00:33:39] WHILE THIS TRADE WAR CONTINUES WITH THE U.S. >> AArti: THANKS FOR THIS,
[00:33:43] OLIVIA. THAT IS THE CBC'S OLIVIA STEFANOVICH IN OTTAWA.
[00:33:46] >>> IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE ANYONE COULD SAY TEXAS IS
[00:33:50] SENDING A DEMOCRAT TO THE SENATE BUT NOW JAMES TALARICO BECOMES
[00:33:54] THE FIRST SINCE 1988.
[00:33:57] >> THIS WIN IS FOR EVERY TEXAN WHO'S EVER WONDERED IF ANYONE IS
[00:34:00] LISTENING.
[00:34:05] I HEARD YOU. WE HEARD YOU. TONIGHT THE WORLD HEARS YOU.
[00:34:08] [ Cheering and Applause ]
[00:34:12] >> AArti: HE DEFEATED REPUBLICAN
[00:34:15] KEN PAXTON 3 IN WHAT IS BEING
[00:34:17] CALLED THE MOST EXPENSIVE RACE. MORE THAN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS
[00:34:20] WERE POURED INTO THE CAMPAIGNS. IT'S A SEISMIC POLITICAL SHIFT
[00:34:23] FOR THE SECOND MOST POPULIST STATE UPENDING MORE THAN THREE
[00:34:27] DECADES OF REPUBLICAN CONTROL.
[00:34:29] TEXAS ALSO ELECTED A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR.
[00:34:32] STEVE FUTTERMAN JOINS US LIVE
[00:34:36] FROM AUSTIN. THANKS FOR COVERING THIS. WE KNOW THAT LOSING A DEEP RED
[00:34:38] STATE LIKE TEXAS IS A MAJOR
[00:34:41] REPUDIATION OF DONALD TRUMP. HOW SIGNIFICANT IS THIS? >> Reporter: IT'S VERY SIGNIFICANT.
[00:34:45] I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT SOME
[00:34:50] SYMBOLISM. YOU MIGHT SAY TEXAS TRADED ITS
[00:34:52] RUBY RED SLIPPERS FOR ELVIS' BLUE SUEDE SHOES.
[00:34:56] IT'S NOW SORT OF A BLUE STATE. IT WASN'T JUST TALARICO WINNING.
[00:35:00] IT WASN'T JUST THE GOVERNOR.
[00:35:03] GOVERNOR ELECT WINNING. YOU HAD THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, THE
[00:35:06] RAILROAD COMMISSIONER AND BY THE WAY THAT'S A VERY SIGNIFICANT
[00:35:09] JOB HERE IN TEXAS.
[00:35:11] SO TEXAS, WHICH HAD NOT ELECTED
[00:35:15] ANY STATEWIDE DEMOCRAT SINCE 1994 SUDDENLY HAS A WHOLE BUNCH
[00:35:19] OF THEM. OBVIOUSLY THE BIG STAR IN ALL OF
[00:35:21] THIS IS JAMES TALARICO, 37 YEARS OLD.
[00:35:24] HE DEFEATS KEN PAXTON WHO WAS DONALD TRUMP'S HAND PICKED
[00:35:28] CHOICE TO GO UP AGAINST HIM. THERE WILL BE SOME DEBATE ABOUT WHETHER THAT WAS A GOOD DECISION
[00:35:32] BY DONALD TRUMP. HE IS NOW THE SENATOR ELECT, COULD BE A BIG STAR IN THE
[00:35:35] FUTURE OF DEMOCRATIC POLITICS.
[00:35:38] THAT WAS HIM SPEAKING TO HIS
[00:35:40] SUPPORTING ADORING FANS LAST
[00:35:42] NIGHT. >> WE SAW IT IN THIS RACE.
[00:35:46] WE SAW IS IN EVERY BILLIONAIRE-FUNDED ATTACK AD.
[00:35:49] THE PEOPLE AT THE TOP DIVIDE US
[00:35:51] BY PARTY, BY RACE, BY GENDER, BY
[00:35:54] RELIGION, BY CULTURE, SO WE DON'T NOTICE THAT THEY ARE
[00:35:57] PICKING OUR POCKETS, THAT THEY
[00:35:58] ARE DEFUNDING OUR SCHOOLS, THAT
[00:36:02] THEY ARE GUTTING OUR HEALTHCARE
[00:36:04] BUT TONIGHT, WE SENT A CRYSTAL CLEAR MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE AT
[00:36:08] THE TOP: WE WILL NOT BE CONQUERED.
[00:36:10] [ Cheering ]
[00:36:12] >> Reporter: AND KEN PAXTON, WHO WAS A BIG ELECTION DENIER IN
[00:36:16] 2020, ONE OF DONALD TRUMP'S B
[00:36:18] BIGGEST SUPPORTERS, OFFERED A MILLION DOLLARS REWARD IF
[00:36:22] SOMEONE COULD COME UP WITH SOME PROOF. HE NEVER GAVE IT OUT.
[00:36:25] LAST NIGHT HE WAS NOT DENYING HE LOST.
[00:36:28] THIS WAS KEN PAXTON'S CONCESSION 1350E67.
[00:36:31] >> LET ME START OFF BY CONGRATULATING JAMES TALARICO.
[00:36:35] I WILL BE PRAYING FOR HIM THAT HE WILL DO GOOD FOR TEXAS AND
[00:36:39] THIS NATION. THIS IS A GREAT STATE.
[00:36:41] IT HAS THE GREATEST PEOPLE. I HAVE BEEN SO BLESSED TO HAVE
[00:36:45] PART OF THAT AND TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRY TO DO THE BEST I COULD, TO DO GOOD FOR
[00:36:48] TEXAS.
[00:36:52] >> Reporter: AFTERWARDS, GUESS
[00:36:53] WHERE JAMES TALARICO AND GINA
[00:36:56] HINOJOSA WENT TO HAVE THEIR INITIAL CELEBRATION?
[00:36:59] THEY WENT TO A WATER BURGER, VERY POPULAR FAST FOOD PLACE
[00:37:02] HERE IN TEXAS AND SURROUNDING
[00:37:05] STATES AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ORDERED BUT THEY WERE VERY HAPPY.
[00:37:08] I SHOULD POINT OUT THIS WAS THE
[00:37:11] MOST EXPENSIVE CAMPAIGN ELECTION RACE IN THE HISTORY OF THE U.S.
[00:37:14] OUTSIDE OF PRESIDENTIAL RACE.
[00:37:16] IT'S ESTIMATED THIS RACE HAD
[00:37:18] AROUND $600 MILLION SPENT ON IT. >> AArti: AS WE'VE BEEN
[00:37:21] DISCUSSING, STEVE, A HISTORIC
[00:37:23] RESULT IN THE STATE OF TEXAS.
[00:37:26] AND ALSO REBUKE OF DONALD TRUMP.
[00:37:28] THE FOUNDER OF THE MAGA MOVEMENT.
[00:37:32] SO WHAT THEN DOES THIS SAY ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THAT MOVEMENT WHEN
[00:37:35] WE SEE THE RESULTS IN TEXAS? >> Reporter: IT'S NOT GOING TO
[00:37:38] GO AWAY BUT IT'S BEEN SERIOUSLY DAMAGED.
[00:37:41] JAMES CARVILLE, BILL CLINTON'S
[00:37:45] GURU MANY YEARS SAID, THE ECONOMY, STUPID. THAT'S WHAT THIS CAME DOWN TO DO
[00:37:48] A LARGE EXTENT. YES, THERE WERE COMPLAINTS ABOUT
[00:37:52] LOTS OF THINGS TRUMP WAS DOING, THE TARIFFS, THE WAR IN IRAN. IT WAS INFLATION WAS THE KEY
[00:37:56] THING THAT BOTHERED PEOPLE AND WE SHOULD ALSO POINT OUT VERY
[00:37:59] LARGE HISPANIC TURNOUT HERE IN TEXAS.
[00:38:03] THIS ISSUE OF INFLATION, OF JUST
[00:38:04] THINGS NOT GOING RIGHT, IT ENERGIZED DEMOCRATS AND THEY
[00:38:07] CAME OUT TO VOTE IN LARGE NUMBERS. MAYBE LARGER THAN EXPECTED.
[00:38:11] ESPECIALLY HISPANICS. ESPECIALLY BLACK VOTERS. WE'LL SEE THIS, I THINK, AS WE
[00:38:15] TRY TO DISSECT WHY THIS ALL HAPPENED YESTERDAY, NOT JUST IN
[00:38:18] TEXAS BUT AROUND THE COUNTRY, THAT THE TURNOUT WILL BE A BIG
[00:38:21] ISSUE AND THE MINORITY VOTES WILL BE A BIG ISSUE. DONALD TRUMP'S MAGA MOVEMENT
[00:38:25] ISN'T OVER. IT'S BEEN DAMAGED.
[00:38:28] AND THEY'LL HAVE TO FIGURE OUT A NEW WAY TO GET THEIR POINT
[00:38:32] ACROSS AND THE DEMOCRATS, MEANWHILE, WILL HAVE TO FIGURE
[00:38:34] OUT A WAY TO NOW GOVERN SO, YES, THEY SAID WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO.
[00:38:38] LET'S SEE IF THEY CAN DO IT. ALWAYS THE TOUGHEST THING, AARTI, NOT TO WIN THE ELECTION,
[00:38:42] BUT TO GOVERN AFTER YOU DO WIN. >> AArti: THANKS FOR THIS, STEVE.
[00:38:46] THAT IS STEVE FUTTERMAN REPORTING FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS.
[00:38:49] >>> AS WE CONTINUE TO LOOK AT SOME OF THE HISTORIC MIDTERM
[00:38:52] ELECTION RESULTS, WE TAKE A LOOK AT MAINE.
[00:38:55] DEMOCRAT TROY JACKSON HAS ENDED INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN SENATOR
[00:38:59] SUSAN COLLINS' 30-YEAR TENURE. ITS A KEY WIN FOR THE DEMOCRATS
[00:39:02] AS THEY TAKE CONTROL OF THE
[00:39:04] SENATE AND IT ENDS A TIGHT RACE
[00:39:07] DEFINED BY VOTER FRUSTRATION OVER THE COST OF LIVING.
[00:39:10] I WANT TO BRING IN THE CBC'S
[00:39:12] MIKE CRAWLEY IN MAINE AND HE'S
[00:39:15] LOOKING AT THAT UPSET. MIKE, WHAT MORE CAN YOU TELL US
[00:39:17] ABOUT WHAT THIS MEANS FOR SUSAN COLLINS, FOR THE REPUBLICANS, AS
[00:39:21] WE SEE A DEMOCRAT IN THE SENATE?
[00:39:24] >> Reporter: YEAH, AARTI, A
[00:39:26] LITTLE BIT OF HISTORICAL CONTEXT
[00:39:29] HERE ABOUT HOW RARE IT IS THAT AN INCUMBENT SENATOR WITH THE
[00:39:32] KIND OF TENURE THAT SUSAN COLLINS HAS HAD, IF YOU LOOK
[00:39:36] BACK OVER THE LAST FIFTY YEARS,
[00:39:39] IT'S ONLY HAPPENED THREE TIMES BEFORE THAT AN INCUMBENT SENATOR
[00:39:42] WITH 30 YEARS OR MORE OF TIME IN
[00:39:46] THE SENATE HAS ACTUALLY LOST AN ELECTION IN THE U.S.
[00:39:49] SO SUSAN COLLINS IS IN MANY WAYS
[00:39:52] THE ULTIMATE POWER BROKER, AN INSIDER IN WASHINGTON.
[00:39:56] SHE IS A CHAIR OF THE SENATE
[00:40:00] APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE WHICH HANDLED THE PURSE STRINGS IN WASHINGTON.
[00:40:03] TROY JACKSON, THE MAN WHO DEFEATED HER, HE'S QUITE AN
[00:40:07] OUTSIDER. HE STARTED OUT HIS WORKING
[00:40:10] CAREER AS A LOGGER AND THEN A
[00:40:13] UNION ACTIVIST AND GOT INTO
[00:40:15] STATE POLITICS AND AS HE TOLD
[00:40:18] HIS SUPPORTERS LAST NIGHT, HE'S
[00:40:21] QUITE PROUD OF HIS WORKING CLASS ROOTS. >> I COULDN'T ACCEPT THAT
[00:40:25] WORKING PEOPLE COULD GIVE EVERYTHING THEY HAD AND STILL
[00:40:29] HAVE SO LITTLE TO SAY OVER THEIR OWN LIVES. SO WHEN THE COMPANIES KEPT
[00:40:33] PUSHING US AROUND, YOU KNOW, WE ORGANIZED, WE STOOD TOGETHER AND
[00:40:36] WE TRIED TO MAKE THEM LISTEN.
[00:40:40] AND TONIGHT, TONIGHT, YOU'VE GIVEN ME THE CHANCE ARE TO TAKE
[00:40:43] THAT FIGHT TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE.
[00:40:44] [ Cheering and Applause ]
[00:40:50] >> Reporter: SO TROY JACKSON IS GOING TO GO TO WASHINGTON.
[00:40:53] HE IS POISED TO BECOME THE ONLY
[00:41:02] AARTI? >> AArti: NOW, MIKE, TOO, OF COURSE, WE WERE DISCUSSING A LOT
[00:41:05] AHEAD OF THE U.S. MIDTERM
[00:41:07] ELECTIONS THAT SUSAN COLLINS HAS
[00:41:10] TRIED TO OFFER SOME ALLEVIATION FROM THE PRESSURE OF TARIFFS AND
[00:41:13] TRIED TO SHOW THAT SHE WOULD BE FIGHTING AGAINST THAT.
[00:41:16] IT DIDN'T SEEM TO HAVE WORKED THERE. BUT WHAT DOES THIS MEAN, THIS
[00:41:19] SHIFT IN POWER? WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE U.S.
[00:41:22] AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH CANADA?
[00:41:25] >> Reporter: YEAH, SO, YOU KNOW,
[00:41:26] IF YOU LOOKED LAST NIGHT ABOUT
[00:41:31] WHERE THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS
[00:41:34] LOST, YOU KNOW, YES, LIER A BLUE STATE IN MAINE BUT A LOT WAS THE
[00:41:37] RED STATES WHERE THE MESSAGE OF AFFORDABILITY WAS WHAT SEEMED TO
[00:41:41] RESONATE WITH PEOPLE. IT'S NOT CLEAR THAT DONALD TRUMP
[00:41:43] IS GOING TO TAKE ANY LESSONS AWAY FROM THIS LOSS.
[00:41:46] HE'S ALREADY TRYING TO DEFLECT BLAME.
[00:41:49] THE DEMOCRATS HAVE SAID THAT ONE
[00:41:52] OF THEIR FIRST TOP PRIORITIES
[00:41:54] WHEN THEY GET CONTROL OF
[00:41:57] CONGRESS IN JANUARY IS TO BRING FORWARD A BILL TO REPEAL THE
[00:42:01] TARIFFS. TRUMP, OF COURSE, RETAINS VETO
[00:42:03] POWER BUT IT DOES MEAN THAT THAT TRUMP TARIFF AGENDA IS GOING TO
[00:42:07] BE VERY MUCH FRONT AND CENTRE WHEN THE NEW CONGRESS GETS SWORN
[00:42:09] IN IN JANUARY.
[00:42:13] >> AArti: THANKS. THAT IS THE CBC'S MIKE CRAWLEY
[00:42:16] IN BANGOR, MAINE.
[00:42:20] >> AArti: WE WANT TO TAKE YOU TO PENNSYLVANIA WHERE THE DEMOCRATS PICKED UP FOUR SEATS.
[00:42:24] WE FIND THE CBC'S KRIS REYES.
[00:42:28] DEMOCRATS FLIPPED A KEY U.S. HOUSE SEAT WITH A WIN BY BOB BROOKS.
[00:42:31] WHAT HAPPENED WITH THAT? >> Reporter: LET'S START WITH THE NUMBERS, BECAUSE THIS IS HOW
[00:42:34] YOU TELL THE STORY. BECAUSE THE NUMBERS ARE SO STUNNING.
[00:42:38] SO AARTI, BOB BROOKS WON BY AT
[00:42:41] LEAST 35,000 VOTES. SO A TWELVE-POINT MARGIN.
[00:42:45] TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF HOW STUNNING THAT IS, THE CANDIDATE
[00:42:48] THAT HE BEAT, REPUBLICAN RYAN MCKENZIE, WHEN HE FLIPPED THIS
[00:42:51] DISTRICT RED IN THE LAST ELECTION, HE DID IT BY JUST A FEW THOUSAND VOTES.
[00:42:55] YOU DON'T REALLY WIN THIS
[00:43:00] DISTRICT BY A LANDSLIDE:IT'S
[00:43:03] VERY COMPETITIVE AND YOU EKE OUT A VICTORY.
[00:43:06] THIS BIG MAR GIN IS SOMETHING THAT WILL BE TALKED ABOUT FOR A
[00:43:10] LONG TIME. IN BOB BROOKS' VICTORY SPEECH, HE TOUCHED ON TOP OF THE
[00:43:14] MESSAGING THAT MAY HAVE GOTTEN HIM THAT BIG WIN.
[00:43:17] HE CALLED TRUMP'S TARIFFS RECKLESS. THE WAR IN IRAN POINTLESS.
[00:43:21] AND HE REALLY POINTED TO A LOT
[00:43:24] OF TRUMP'S POLICIES AS THE
[00:43:26] REASON WHY MANY PENNSYLVANIA NS
[00:43:31] ARE HAVING A HARD TIME. >> PEOPLE ARE HURTING. TONIGHT THEY SENT A CLEAR MESSAGE.
[00:43:35] IT'S TIME FOR THINGS TO CHANGE.
[00:43:36] [ Cheering ]
[00:43:43] D.C. IS GOING TO HEAR THIS MESSAGE LOUD AND CLEAR WHEN BOB
[00:43:46] BROOKS GETS TO TOWN.
[00:43:49] WE AREN'T GOING DOWN THERE TO TRY AND PIECE THINGS BACK TOGETHER THE WAY THEY WERE BEFORE.
[00:43:53] WE'RE GOING DOWN THERE TO SHAKE
[00:43:54] UP THE STATUS QUO, FIGHT FOR
[00:43:59] WORKING PEOPLE. >> Reporter: THAT OUTSIDER STATUS, AARTI, CLEARLY WORKED
[00:44:03] FOR HIM.
[00:44:05] HE IS A FIRST-TIME POLITICAL
[00:44:09] PARTY, HE USED TO BE A FIREFIGHTER, LANDSCAPER, BAR TENER.
[00:44:12] I LIST ALL OF THOSE JOBS BECAUSE
[00:44:14] HE SOLD HIMSELF TO VOTERS AS A
[00:44:17] MAN WHO UNDERSTANDS WORKING PEOPLE'S PROBLEMS AND CLEARLY
[00:44:21] THAT RESONATED WITH VOTERS HERE.
[00:44:25] >> AArti: AND DEMOCRATS SWEPT BATTLEGROUND PENNSYLVANIA WITH
[00:44:28] FOUR KEY HOUSE FLIPS. SO WHAT HAPPENED IN THOSE DISTRICTS? >> Reporter: THAT'S RIGHT.
[00:44:32] SO LET'S START AGAIN WITH NUMBERS, AARTI.
[00:44:35] HARD TO DENY THAT THIS WAS NOT A
[00:44:38] BLUWAVE ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA. SO FOR THOSE OTHER THREE
[00:44:42] DISTRICTS THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO
[00:44:43] BE COMPETITIVE THAT FLIPPED RED,
[00:44:47] IT WAS ALSO WON BY HUGE MARGINS.
[00:44:51] IT'S HARD NOT TO READ THAT AS ANYTHING BUT A FORCEFUL
[00:44:54] REJECTION OF TRUMP'S POLICIES
[00:44:58] AND REALLY TRUE TO THIS STATE
[00:44:59] AND THIS DISTRICT'S BELLWETHER
[00:45:03] REPU REPUTATION, THE BIG WINS HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA MIRROR THE BIG WINS
[00:45:06] FOR THE DEMOCRATS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
[00:45:09] >> AArti: KRIS, THANK YOU FOR THIS.
[00:45:10] THAT IS THE CBC'S KRIS REYES.
[00:45:17] >>> TRUMP HAS VETO POWERS AND
[00:45:20] OVERRIDING A PRESIDENTALITY VETO REQUIRES A TWO-THIRDS VOTE.
[00:45:23] HOW SHOULD DEMOCRATS NAVIGATE THE NEXT TWO YEARS WHILE TRUMP
[00:45:27] IS STILL IN POWER? WE HAVE REACHED FORMER
[00:45:30] DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVE JANE HARMON IN WASHINGTON.
[00:45:32] SHE IS THE CHAIR FOR THE U.S.-CANADA SECOND CENTURY COMMISSION. THANK YOU FOR MAKING TIME FOR US
[00:45:36] TODAY. >> THANK YOU.
[00:45:39] >> AArti: SO NOW, SEVERAL HOURS
[00:45:41] IN, HOW ARE YOU READING THE
[00:45:44] RESULTS THIS MORNING?
[00:45:45] >> WELL, IT'S A ROUTE OF THE
[00:45:49] MAJORITY PARTY, CLEARLY. AND A REFERENDUM ON PRESIDENT'S LEADERSHIP.
[00:45:52] THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.
[00:45:55] HE SAID HE WANTED TO THINK THAT
[00:45:57] HE WAS ON THE BALLOT AND I THINK THAT'S HOW VOTERS VOTED. THEY THOUGHT HE WAS ON THE BALLOT.
[00:46:01] AND THEY VOTED AGAINST HIM. THEY DIDN'T NECESSARILY VOTE FOR
[00:46:04] THE OTHER PARTY BUT THEY VOTED AGAINST THE PRESIDENT AND HIS
[00:46:08] AGENDA AND I HAVE TO IMAGINE
[00:46:11] THAT FOLKS IN CANADA ARE
[00:46:13] CHEERING THIS RESULT BECAUSE
[00:46:15] THIS PRESIDENT, UNFORTUNATELY,
[00:46:18] UNDID SO MUCH OF THE POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP WE HAVE HAD, WE,
[00:46:21] THE U.S., HAVE HAD WITH CANADA FOR MY LIFETIME.
[00:46:24] YOU KNOW, THEM THINKING OPERATION YELLOW RIBBON,
[00:46:28] INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION AND DEFENCE COOPERATION AND SHARED
[00:46:32] MANUFACTURING OF AUTOMOBILES AND OTHER THINGS.
[00:46:33] I TOOK THESE FOR GRANTED AND I
[00:46:38] NEVER IMAGINED THAT THE COMMENTS AND POLICIES OF THIS PRESIDENT
[00:46:42] WOULD BE WHAT THEY APPARENTLY WERE AND ARE.
[00:46:45] >> AArti: WHEN WE DO TALK ABOUT THE VETO POWERS THAT DONALD
[00:46:47] TRUMP IS SUGGESTING HE WILL USE MORE FREQUENTLY IF NEEDED, GIVEN
[00:46:51] THAT THERE HAS BEEN A SHIFT IN THE BALANCE OF POWER.
[00:46:53] HOW PRECISELY MIGHT THAT WORK HERE?
[00:46:56] AND IN PARTICULAR, IF WE'RE LOOKING AT THINGS LIKE THE
[00:46:59] REMOVAL OF SOME OF THE TARIFFS.
[00:47:03] >> HE SAID YESTERDAY, HE KIND OF WALKED THAT BACK.
[00:47:06] AND SAID, WELL, HE DIDN'T WANT TO JUST VETO THINGS FOR HIS LAST
[00:47:10] TWO YEARS.
[00:47:21] I THINK THE REPUBLICANS WHO REMAIN HAVE LOST THEIR FEAR OF THIS PRESIDENT.
[00:47:25] HE IS GENUINELY A LAME DUCK. THEY WANT TO SHOW SOME ACCOMPLISHMENT.
[00:47:29] I'M GUESSING THAT NOT JUST WHEN THE DEMOCRATS TAKE OVER IN
[00:47:31] JANUARY BUT RIGHT NOW, WHEN THE
[00:47:33] SO-CALLED LAME DUCK SESSION STARTS, THAT THEY WILL JOIN WITH
[00:47:37] DEMOCRATS ON A FEW THINGS THAT
[00:47:39] WILL BE ENORMOUSLY HELPFUL,
[00:47:41] TRYING TO REPEAL THE TARIFFS
[00:47:44] WOULD BE A START. CERTAINLY THAT RESONATES WITH
[00:47:47] HOW VOTERS VOTED, AS YOUR PRIOR COMMENTATOR SAID.
[00:47:51] IT WAS THE ECONOMY, STUPID. AND THAT'S HOW THEY VOTED.
[00:47:54] BUT I WOULD ALSO HOPE THEY WOULD
[00:47:57] USE THEIR LEADERSHIP ON WAR
[00:48:01] POWERS AND AUTHORIZATION TO USE MILITARY FORCE TO REIN IN
[00:48:04] ACTIVITIES IN IRAN WHICH HAVE CAUSED THIS HUGE SPIKE IN ENERGY
[00:48:08] PRICES AND ALSO TO RESTORE THE
[00:48:11] PLEDGE, THE UNITED STATES PLEDGE, IN SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE.
[00:48:14] THESE REALLY MATTER TO MOST
[00:48:16] AMERICANS, CERTAINLY TO ME. >> AArti: WHEN WE DO TALK ABOUT
[00:48:20] WHAT THE DEMOCRATS MAY DO NEXT,
[00:48:23] GIVEN HOW HISTORIC THIS SHIFT
[00:48:25] HAS BEEN IN TERMS OF POWER IN WASHINGTON, WHAT SHOULD THEIR
[00:48:29] NEXT STEPS BE? CERTAINLY THERE ARE SOME LEGAL
[00:48:32] AVENUES THAT HAVE BEEN DISCUSSIONS AROUND PURSUING THEM.
[00:48:34] DO YOU THINK THAT'S THE RIGHT MOVE?
[00:48:38] >> WELL, I DON'T THINK IT'S THE WRONG MOVE.
[00:48:41] BUT IT'S ONLY PART OF WHAT
[00:48:44] DEMOCRATS SHOULD DO. DEMOCRATS NEED TO GOVERN, NOT
[00:48:47] JUST INVESTIGATE. IF ALL WE'RE DOING IS THE
[00:48:51] OPPRESSOR CHANGING PLACES WITH THE OPPRESSOR, I THINK THAT IS A
[00:48:54] SPIRAL DOWN AND THEN WE'LL HAVE A REPEAT OF THIS IN TWO YEARS BECAUSE VOTERS WILL THROW OUT
[00:48:58] THE DEMOCRATS.
[00:49:01] AND LET'S GOVERN THE COUNTRY. LET'S RESTORE THE POWERS OF CONGRESS.
[00:49:04] IT'S THE ARTICLE 1 BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT.
[00:49:06] I SERVED THERE FOR NINE TERMS.
[00:49:10] IT'S A LONG TIME. THROUGH 9/11.
[00:49:13] AGAIN, KUDOS TO CANADA FOR BEING
[00:49:16] OUR PARTNER ON 9/11. I DON'T FORGET. OUR PRESIDENT MAY FORGET.
[00:49:20] HE MAY FORGET THE ROLE OF NATO ON 9/11.
[00:49:22] BUT I DON'T FORGET THAT.
[00:49:27] AND I THINK THAT THERE IS AN
[00:49:30] ENORMOUS OPPORTUNITY TO RESTORE
[00:49:32] A LOT OF THE SOFT POWER AND
[00:49:35] FRIENDSHIP THAT WE HAVE HAD WITH CANADA FOR A CENTURY.
[00:49:38] THAT'S WHY I CO-CHAIR THIS SECOND CENTURY COMMISSION WITH
[00:49:41] LISA RAITT, A FORMER
[00:49:44] PARLIAMENTARIAN AND ADVISOR IN THE HARPER ADMINISTRATION IN
[00:49:47] CANADA AND WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS FIND A WAY FORWARD,
[00:49:51] PRODUCTIVE WAY FORWARD, FOR BOTH
[00:49:52] OF OUR COUNTRIES, TO BUILD,
[00:49:55] REBUILD A RELATIONSHIP THAT BENEFITS BOTH OF US. IT WAS THERE.
[00:49:58] IT NEEDS TO BE THERE AGAIN. >> AArti: AS YOU MENTION, THE
[00:50:01] FORMER CONSERVATIVE CABINET MINISTER, LISA RAITT, CERTAINLY
[00:50:04] SHE IS ALSO A PART OF THE PRIME
[00:50:06] MINISTER'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON
[00:50:09] CANADA-U.S. ECONOMIC RELATIONS AS WELL. AND THIS BINATIONAL COMMISSION
[00:50:13] ON THE FUTURE OF CANADA-U.S. RELATIONS THAT YOU BOTH
[00:50:16] CO-CHAIR, I'M WONDERING, HOW DO
[00:50:17] YOU IMAGINE THOSE CONVERSATIONS
[00:50:20] MAY CHANGE NOW ON WHAT THE PATH FORWARD LOOKS LIKE?
[00:50:24] WE DO NOTE, OF COURSE, THAT IT'S THE EXECUTIVE LEVEL OF
[00:50:26] GOVERNMENT THAT IS HAVING THESE DISCUSSIONS WHEN IT COMES TO
[00:50:30] TRADE TALKS, FOR EXAMPLE.
[00:50:31] SO DOES THIS REALLY SIGNIFY
[00:50:37] THERE COULD BE A CHANGE ON THAT FRONT?
[00:50:41] >> ABSOLUTELY IT CAN BE.
[00:50:43] OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT HAS THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT,
[00:50:46] SEPARATIONS OF POWER, ARTICLE 11 CONGRESS.
[00:50:48] ARTICLE 2 IS THE EXECUTIVE. ARTICLE 3 IS THE COURTS.
[00:50:52] SO CONGRESS HAS DISAPPEARED IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.
[00:50:54] IT'S NOT ALL THE REPUBLICANS' FAULT. THE BLAME GAME IS SHARED ON BOTH
[00:50:57] SIDES.
[00:51:00] BUT THE EXECUTIVE, SINCE 9/11,
[00:51:02] HAS BEEN OPERATING UNDER WHAT'S
[00:51:04] CALLED THE YOUUNITARY AND ALL F
[00:51:14] PRESIDENTS HAVE XANED THE POWERS
[00:51:16] AND THAT POWER HAS NOT BEEN
[00:51:20] CHECKED BY THAT.
[00:51:22] WES UNFORTUNATELY DONE A LOT OF
[00:51:25] SELF-INFLICTED DAMAGE AND OUR COMMISSION, I'M SURE, WILL
[00:51:28] ADDRESS THIS THIS AND WILL ADDRESS STEPS THAT CANADA CAN
[00:51:32] TAKE TOO IN TERMS OF GOVERNMENTAL REFORMS. I'M A BIG FAN, BY THE WAY, OF
[00:51:36] MARK CARNEY. I THINK HE KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS.
[00:51:38] HE'S BOLD IN HIS LEADERSHIP.
[00:51:40] AND HIS LEADERSHIP IS FOR
[00:51:43] CANADA, NOT JUST PERSONAL, AND
[00:51:46] FOR HIMSELF, HIS FAMILY AND HIS
[00:51:48] CIRCLE OF FRIENDS.
[00:51:52] >> AArti: MS. HARMAN, I WANT TO
[00:51:55] THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AND
[00:51:56] SHARING YOUR THOUGHTS.
[00:51:59] THAT IS JANE HARMAN, A FORMER DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVE.
[00:52:02] >>> THE WAR IN IRAN WHICH HAS
[00:52:05] DRIVEN UP COSTS INCLUDING GAS AND DIESEL WAS A MAJOR THEME IN THE MID-TERMS AND PLAYED TO THE
[00:52:09] FAVOUR OF DEMOCRATS. THAT INCLUDES ABDUL EL-SAYED WHO
[00:52:13] WON A SENATE SEAT IN MICHIGAN.
[00:52:14] HE CAMPAIGNED ON IT AND WARNED
[00:52:17] OF A POSSIBLE ESCALATION AFTER THE MID-TERMS. HOW LIKELY IS THAT NOW?
[00:52:21] LET'S BRING IN THE CBC'S CRYSTAL GOOMANSINGH TRACKING THAT STORY
[00:52:24] FOR US FROM JERUSALEM. HOW COULD THE OUTCOME OF THE
[00:52:27] U.S. MIDTERM ELECTIONS AFFECT
[00:52:29] THE ESCALATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST?
[00:52:32] >> Reporter: WELL, EVERYONE'S
[00:52:34] REALLY WAITING TO SEE EXACTLY
[00:52:38] WHAT WILL HAPPEN AND A BIG QUESTION MARK IS ON U.S.
[00:52:41] PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF. HE IS AN UNPREDICTABLE LEADER SO
[00:52:44] NO ONE IS ENTIRELY SURE.
[00:52:46] WE DO KNOW HE HAS PREVIOUSLY IF
[00:52:52] HE RESUMES ATTACKS ON IRAN, IT COULD HAPPEN AFTER THE MID-TERMS.
[00:52:55] HE HAS ALSO SAID THAT HE'S IN NO RUSH TO RESUME THOSE ATTACKS.
[00:52:59] SO WE REALLY DON'T KNOW.
[00:53:01] WHAT WE ARE UNDERSTANDING, BASED
[00:53:03] ON REPORTS FROM THE REUTERS NEWS
[00:53:06] AGENCY, WHICH HAS INTERVIEWED
[00:53:08] TWO SOURCES INSIDE TEHRAN, THEY ARE SAYING THAT THEY ARE ON A
[00:53:12] HEIGHTENED SENSE OF ALERT, THAT
[00:53:14] THERE IS SOME CONCERN THAT THE U.S. PRESIDENT COULD SEEK
[00:53:18] COMPENSATION FOLLOWING THOSE
[00:53:20] DEMOCRATIC VICTORIES AND RESUME ATTACKS ON IRAN.
[00:53:24] WE ARE HEARING SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN TERMS OF TONE FROM
[00:53:27] THE SUPREME LEADER, AYATOLLAH
[00:53:34] KHOMEINI THAT WAS READ ON IRANIAN TELEVISION.
[00:53:36] HE HAS SAID THAT THE CHANGE DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE WHEN
[00:53:40] IT COMES TO U.S. AGGRESSION
[00:53:42] AGAINST IRAN, THAT HE SAYS ANY
[00:53:45] SORT OF STRIKE WOULD RESULT IN A
[00:53:48] STRONG RETALIATION AND HE HAS
[00:53:50] ALSO SAID THAT U.S. BASES RIGHT
[00:53:53] ACROSS THE REGION COULD BE AT RISK IF THE UNITED STATES
[00:53:56] RESUMES THOSE STRIKES.
[00:53:58] WE DO KNOW THAT THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT
[00:54:02] THE WAR DID PLAY A ROLE IN THE
[00:54:07] VOTES AGAINST REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. HE SAID THAT TO THE "WALL STREET
[00:54:10] JOURNAL" AND ALSO TO FOX NEWS.
[00:54:15] >> President Donald Trump: I THINK A PART OF IT WAS IRAN, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, PEOPLE
[00:54:19] UNDERSTOOD THE IMPORTANCE OF WHETHER AN I'VE DONE WITH IRAN.
[00:54:21] I THINK HISTORICALLY IT'S GOING
[00:54:24] TO BE MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN THIS EVENING BECAUSE YOU CAN'T
[00:54:28] LET THE NUMBER ONE STATE SPONSOR OF TERROR HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON.
[00:54:31] IT'S THE MOST DANGEROUS COUNTRY IN THE WORLD AND WE WIPED THEM
[00:54:33] OUT PRACTICALLY.
[00:54:38] >> Reporter: THE NUCLEAR QUESTION IS ONE THAT REMAINS AND
[00:54:41] IT WAS JUST A FEW DAYS AGO WHEN THE PRESIDENT SAID THAT THERE
[00:54:45] ARE STILL A FEW SITES THAT COULD BE HIT.
[00:54:48] SO ALL EYES ARE ON THE NEXT
[00:54:51] COUPLE OF DAYS AND IF THE U.S. PRESIDENT WILL RESUME THOSE ATTACKS, AARTI.
[00:54:55] >> AArti: THANKS FOR THIS, CRYSTAL.
[00:54:56] THAT'S THE CBC'S CRYSTAL
[00:54:59] GOOMANSINGH IN JERUSALEM.
[00:55:00] >>> THERE HAS ALSO BEEN A MAJOR
[00:55:04] UPSET FOR THE REPUBLICANS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
[00:55:06] ANNIE ANDREWS IS THE STATE'S FIRST DEMOCRATIC SENATOR IN MORE
[00:55:09] THAN A QUARTER CENTURY. >> WE HERE IN SOUTH CAROLINA
[00:55:12] SENT A CLEAR MESSAGE THAT THIS
[00:55:14] SENATE SEAT DOES NOT BELONG TO ONE FAMILY, ONE PARTY OR TO
[00:55:18] WASHINGTON D.C. [ Cheering ]
[00:55:21] >> AArti: ANDREWS IS ALSO THE FIRST WOMAN TO BE ELECTED
[00:55:24] SENATOR IN THE STATE'S HISTORY.
[00:55:26] SHE WAS UP AGAINST INCUMBENT SENATOR DARLINE GRAHAM WHO WAS
[00:55:29] APPOINTED FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF HER BROTHER, LINDSEY GRAHAM.
[00:55:32] ANDREWS RAN A CAMPAIGN ON HEALTHCARE, AFFORDABILITY AND
[00:55:35] CRITICIZED DONALD TRUMP FOR THE WAR ON IRAN'S IMPACT ON GAS
[00:55:38] PRICES.
[00:55:42] >> WE CELEBRATE A
[00:55:46] VICTORY-FOR-ANYONE, LEFT, RIGHT, OR CENTRE, STRUGGLING WITH THE HIGH COST OF LIVING FROM GAS TO
[00:55:50] GROCERIES TO HOUSING. ANYONE WHO'S SICK OF THE TARIFFS, ENDLESS WAR, TAX BREAKS
[00:55:53] FOR BIG CORPORATIONS PAID FOR BY CUTS TO YOUR HEALTHCARE, ANYONE
[00:55:56] WHO'S FED UP WITH THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN OUR HISTORY WHO HAS FAILED IN HIS WAY OF
[00:56:00] GOVERNING. >> AArti: NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRAT
[00:56:04] CHRIS POPIS IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED TO THE U.S. SENATE.
[00:56:07] HE DEFEATED FORMER SENATOR JOHN
[00:56:13] SUNUNU. HE HAS PLEDGED TO FIGHT FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AND FOR THE CREATION OF DATA CENTRES.
[00:56:17] HE CALLED HIS WIN A VICTORY OVER
[00:56:19] THE BROKEN STATUS QUO YOU ARE
[00:56:24] LOOKING NOW LIVE AT CAPITOL HILL IN WASHINGTON.
[00:56:27] THE HALLS OF THAT BUILDING WILL LOOK VERY DIFFERENT COME
[00:56:31] JANUARY. DEMOCRATS TOOK CONTROL OF BOTH THE U.S. HOUSE AND SENATE IN
[00:56:34] LAST NIGHT'S MIDTERM ELECTIONS.
[00:56:36] NOW, THE PARTY SCORED KEY VICTORIES IN TRADITIONAL
[00:56:40] REPUBLICAN STATES LIKE TEXAS,
[00:56:42] KANSAS, IOWA AND SOUTH CAROLINA. U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAYS
[00:56:46] HE IS LIKELY TO VETO MANY
[00:56:49] DEMOCRATIC INITIATIVES BUT ALSO THAT HE ACCEPTS THE RESULTS.
[00:56:53] WE'LL CONTINUE TO COVER THIS STORY FOR YOU.
[00:56:55] WE'VE ALSO HEARD FROM CANADA'S MINISTER ON CANADA-U.S. TRADE
[00:56:58] WHO SAYS THAT IT IS AN IMPORTANT MOMENT FOR THE COUNTRY, BUT THAT
[00:57:02] THEY CONTINUE THEIR TALKS TO
[00:57:05] DEAL WITH TRADE AND CONTINUE WITH THEIR PRIORITIES AND THEY
[00:57:07] WILL WATCH TO SEE HOW THINGS EVOLVE.
[00:57:11] YOU'RE WATCHING CBC NEWS NETWORK. >> Announc
[01:00:20] [ ♪♪ ] [ ♪♪ ]
[01:00:23] >> Aarti: Hello, welcome inside the CBC Newsroom.
[01:00:26] I'm Aarti Pole. Americans voted for change in a
[01:00:28] big way in yesterday's mid-term elections.
[01:00:31] A historic blue wave landed Democrats in control of both the
[01:00:34] house and the senate delivering a stunning rebuke of U.S.
[01:00:38] President Donald Trump. senate seats in deep red states
[01:00:42] like Texas, Kansas and South Carolina flipped.
[01:00:45] Here now is a live look at Washington this hour.
[01:00:47] Democrats will take control of congress in January.
[01:00:51] They only required three seats to win the house, so far they
[01:00:54] have picked up more than two dozen. But it could take days until all
[01:00:58] the races are decided.
[01:01:00] But it's the senate where the
[01:01:02] Democrats made a landmark breakthrough winning seven seats
[01:01:06] from the Republicans, all toss ups going their way and
[01:01:10] Democrats could win more building on that senate
[01:01:13] majority. First, we want to begin our coverage this morning with Mark
[01:01:17] Carcasole in Washington looking
[01:01:18] at the big picture for us. Control of congress shifting to
[01:01:22] the Democrats. And he begins with what this
[01:01:25] might mean going forward, specifically what Democrats do
[01:01:28] now with this power. >> Reporter: Well, there are
[01:01:31] many options, many powers before them, Aarti, but whether they
[01:01:35] can properly exercise them, that's another question. There's a lot of potential for
[01:01:38] them to create some real change, if essentially everything goes
[01:01:42] their way and then there's a lot of potential for them to kind of
[01:01:46] deadlock congress and either way, that is a strategy in itself.
[01:01:49] Now that they have full control of congress and the house and
[01:01:52] the senate, the Democrats have the power to pass their own legislation.
[01:01:56] However, anything they do pass has to receive presidential approval.
[01:02:00] That in itself is a hurdle.
[01:02:02] We will get more into that aspect in a little bit.
[01:02:05] They have the power to block any Republican legislation that
[01:02:09] comes their way and that is where I talk about the strategy
[01:02:12] of them bogging things down in congress. That is one potential thing that
[01:02:16] they can look at. In addition to those legislative
[01:02:19] powers, the Democrats also now have the ability to launch
[01:02:22] investigations against the president and his associates,
[01:02:25] subject them to congressional oversight. President Trump's family members
[01:02:28] are expected to at some point come under congressional oversighing.
[01:02:32] His sons don junior and Eric,
[01:02:35] his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, their business and politic
[01:02:38] Altice all likely scrutinized much more closely now.
[01:02:42] California representative Robert Garcia, who's expected to
[01:02:45] eventually become chair of the house oversight committee made
[01:02:48] it clear that's a priority to him.
[01:02:50] Yesterday on X, he posted a
[01:02:56] simple capitalized to word tweet. When he told President Trump and
[01:02:58] his associates quote, lawyer up.
[01:03:01] Now with the powers before them,
[01:03:03] with the landscape ahead of
[01:03:05] them, Hakeem Jeffries who is set to be the next speaker of the
[01:03:09] house A New York representative, the first black person in
[01:03:12] history to become house speaker says that the Democrats have a
[01:03:15] lot of plans, they have a wide agenda.
[01:03:19] He spoke to CNN late this morning talking about exactly
[01:03:22] what's on that Democrat agenda.
[01:03:25] >> We have a responsibility to
[01:03:28] govern on affordability, to
[01:03:29] lower the high cost of all the
[01:03:33] things -- the high cost of groceries, the high cost of housing, the high cost of gas,
[01:03:36] we're going to fight to make
[01:03:38] health care affordable for every
[01:03:41] single American so that people
[01:03:43] can actually afford to go see a
[01:03:46] doctor when they need one. >> Reporter: So given out --
[01:03:49] given some of the factors that I've laid out already, there's
[01:03:52] some immediate difficulty there. There's also the fact that the
[01:03:56] Democrats don't take control of congress until January, and so
[01:03:59] the Republicans who currently control congress have
[01:04:02] essentially two months to do what they need to do. Americans will certainly be
[01:04:06] watching closely to see what they do with that. There's also the fact that
[01:04:09] President Trump retains executive power and that he can
[01:04:12] governor by executive order. We've seen him do that multiple
[01:04:16] times over the first two years of this term where he can launch
[01:04:20] an executive order and skirt around congress to get done what he wants to get done.
[01:04:23] Case in point, the tariffs against Canada and other countries.
[01:04:27] The trade war. All of that came from executive
[01:04:29] orders.
[01:04:47] THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO SOFTEN OR COMPLETELY GET RID OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S TARIFFS.
[01:04:51] THEY'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR SOME TIME.
[01:04:54] THERE'S SOME SYMBOLISTIC BILLS IF YOU WILL WHICH THEY KNEW
[01:04:58] PROBABLY WOULDN'T PASS, BUT THEY WERE PUT OUT THERE JUST TO SHOW
[01:05:01] A SYMBOL OF THEIR INTENT AND ALSO WITHIN THE LAST WEEK OR SO,
[01:05:05] JUST LAST WEEKEND, SENATOR RON
[01:05:09] WIDEN TOLD REPORTERS, QUOTE, ONE OF THE MOST OBVIOUS PRIORITIES
[01:05:12] WOULD BE REPEALING TRUMP'S TARIFFS ON CANADA RAISING PRICES
[01:05:16] AND HARMING COMMUNITIES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER.
[01:05:18] NOW HE'S THE OTHER WRINKLE. PRESIDENT TRUMP STILL RETAINS
[01:05:22] VETO POWER AND EVEN THOUGH THEY CONTROL CONGRESS NOW, THE
[01:05:25] DEMOCRATS DO NOT HAVE THE TWO-THIRDS SUPERMAJORITY
[01:05:28] REQUIRED TO GET AROUND VETO. UNLESS, OF COURSE, THEY CAN GET
[01:05:31] SOME REPUBLICANS ON THEIR SIDE IN THESE CRUCIAL VOTES TO GET
[01:05:35] AROUND THAT VETO, GET TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY.
[01:05:39] NOW IT IS CONCEIVABLE THAT SOME
[01:05:43] REPUBLICANS MIGHT DO THAT GIVEN THESE WITH AFFORDABILITY AND
[01:05:45] COST OF LIVING MEASURES AND THAT WAS SUCH AN IMPORTANT PRIORITY
[01:05:48] FOR VOTERS IN THESE MID-TERMS.
[01:05:50] SO WE'LL SEE HOW REPUBLICANS VOTE THERE.
[01:05:54] PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR HIS PART
[01:05:56] KNOWS THAT HE HAS A VETO POWER
[01:05:58] AND MADE IT CLEAR ON FOX NEWS LAST NIGHT HE PLANS TO USE IT.
[01:06:02] >> President Donald Trump:
[01:06:03] IT'S BEEN DONE BEFORE AS YOU KNOW NUMEROUS TIMES.
[01:06:07] IT'S A VETO POWER.
[01:06:08] ONE OF THE STRONGER POWERS THE
[01:06:13] PRESIDENT HAS. AFTER A COUPLE OF MONTHS OF
[01:06:16] VETOs, THEY'LL CALL AND SAY HOW DO WE GET THIS STUFF DONE
[01:06:20] AND WE'LL WORK TOGETHER. I HAVE A LOT OF FRIENDS THAT ARE DEMOCRATS BELIEVE IT OR NOT.
[01:06:23] >> Reporter: HE SAID PREVIOUSLY IF THE REPUBLICANS
[01:06:26] LOST CONGRESS HE WOULD TURN INTO Mr. VETO. PERHAPS LAST NIGHT ON SOCIAL
[01:06:30] MEDIA WE SAW THE FIRST SIGN OF
[01:06:32] THAT TRANSITION WITH THIS PHOTO,
[01:06:34] A RED MAGA STYLE BALL CAP.
[01:06:39] THE WORDS EMBROIDERED ON IT IN CAPITAL LETTERS VETO.
[01:06:43] WE DON'T KNOW IF WE'LL HERE FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP TODAY.
[01:06:46] THE OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE ITINERARY SAYS HE HAS NO PUBLIC
[01:06:49] EVENTS SCHEDULED.
[01:06:50] >> Aarti: THE CBC'S MARK CARCASOLE IN WASHINGTON.
[01:06:54] WE TAKE TO YOU THE ONTARIO LEGISLATURE IN TORONTO AS YOU CAN SEE PREMIER DOUG FORD IS
[01:06:58] SPEAKING ABOUT THE U.S. MIDTERM
[01:07:02] WHEELS. >> Premier Doug Ford: IF YOU'VE EVER SEEN A BIG GUY LIKE
[01:07:06] ME DOING CARTWHEELS, JUMPING UP AND DOWN WHEN THE RESULTS CAME IN.
[01:07:10] THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SPOKE. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SPOKE OP A COUPLE OF ISSUES.
[01:07:14] COST OF LIVING. COST OF GAS. THE WAR IN IRAN, BUT MOST
[01:07:18] IMPORTANT HIS TARIFFS. THAT'S ALL TIED IN THE COST OF LIVING AND WHEN I WAS DOWN
[01:07:22] THERE, VOICING OUR OPINION, NO MATTER IF IT'S WITHIN THE U.S.
[01:07:25] MEDIA OR GOING FACE-TO-FACE WITH
[01:07:28] GOVERNORS, A TARIFF ON CANADAS
[01:07:31] WITH NOTHING MORE THAN A TAX ON
[01:07:37] AMERICAN PEOPLE. WHETHER IT WAS MICHIGAN, OHIO,
[01:07:40] NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, TEXAS, THEY SPOKE LOUD
[01:07:44] AND CLEAR AND I'M HAPPY ABOUT TEXAS AS WELL.
[01:07:46] IF THAT GOVERNOR, I'LL TELL YOU,
[01:07:49] HE DIDN'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH CANADA EVEN THOUGH WE WERE THE SECOND LARGEST TRADING
[01:07:53] PARTNER HE HAS IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.
[01:07:55] WE DO OVER $30 BILLION OF TRADE
[01:07:57] WITH TEXAS.
[01:07:59] SO I'M DIRECTING OUR MINISTERS AS SOON AS EVERYONE GETS SWORN
[01:08:04] IN, GO DOWN TO WASHINGTON. CONNECT WITH THE SENATORS, THE
[01:08:07] CONGRESS PEOPLE AND, OF COURSE, I'LL BE TALKING TO THE GOVERNORS.
[01:08:11] AND SEEING HOW WE CAN MOVE FORWARD, BUT LET'S BE UNDER NO
[01:08:14] ILLUSION. THIS TRADE WAR IS DONE. IT'S NOT DONE.
[01:08:18] IT'S NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING DONE BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT STILL
[01:08:21] HAS THE POWER, THE JANUARY
[01:08:24] TARIFFS ARE STILL ON THE TABLE. SO WE HAVE TO GET OUT THERE,
[01:08:28] COMMUNICATE, AND TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, AS
[01:08:31] I'VE ALWAYS SAID YOU CAN'T
[01:08:34] UNSCRAMBLE AN EGG THAT'S BEEN AROUND FOR DECADES ESPECIALLY IN
[01:08:37] THE AUTO SECTOR SINCE 1965.
[01:08:39] WE HAVE TO MAKE THE OMELETTE LARGER. WE'RE THE LARGEST CUSTOMER.
[01:08:43] WE BUY 400% MORE CARS OFF THE
[01:08:46] AMERICANS THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD. BUT WHAT WE WANT TO DO AND I KNOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, IT'S
[01:08:50] NOT JUST A VICTORY FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE U.S., I THINK IT'S
[01:08:54] A VICTORY ACROSS THE WORLD AND MOST IMPORTANTLY IT'S A VICTORY
[01:08:57] FOR THE PEOPLE OF CANADA. THEY PLAYED A STRONG VOICE.
[01:09:00] IT WASN'T JUST MYSELF.
[01:09:02] IT WAS ORGANISATIONS, SECTORS,
[01:09:05] PREMIERS, ELECTED OFFICIALS AT
[01:09:08] ALL THREE LEVELS BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS AND ESPECIALLY
[01:09:11] WITH THE NEW ELECTED PEOPLE THAT THE AMERICANS ELECTED, WE'RE
[01:09:14] GOING TO BE DOWN THERE COMMUNICATING, BUILDING THOSE
[01:09:17] RELATIONSHIPS. SO I CAN'T WAIT TO CONTINUE
[01:09:20] COMMUNICATING AND MEETING THE NEW GOVERNORS AND WE'RE GOING TO
[01:09:24] MOVE FORWARD.
[01:09:25] BUT, AGAIN, I WANT FA I WA,
[01:09:33] THE WAR IS NOT OVER.
[01:09:36] >> IS THERE ANY KIND OF A BACKLASH FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP
[01:09:39] GIVEN WHAT AMBASSADOR HOEKSTRA
[01:09:43] SAID THAT THE REPUBLICANS MIGHT
[01:09:45] BLAME CANADA -- IT'S A CONVINCING DEFEAT FOR THEM.
[01:09:49] >> PRESIDENT TRUMP WANTS TO BLAME EVERYONE ELSE BUT HIMSELF.
[01:09:52] HE SAYS WELL, YOU KNOW, PRETEND MY NAME'S ON THE BALLOT.
[01:09:56] AMERICAN PEOPLE LISTENED TO THAT. AND THEY SHOWED WHAT THEY
[01:10:00] THOUGHT ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THEN AFTER THE ELECTION, HE
[01:10:02] STARTS INSULTING HIS OWN CANDIDATES THAT HE ENDORSED AND
[01:10:06] SAID, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE LOUSY CANDIDATES.
[01:10:09] AND MY NAME WASN'T ON -- THE CHEESE SLIPPED OFF THE CRACKER
[01:10:13] WITH THIS GUY TOTALLY. THERE'S NO CRACKER. THERE'S NO MORE CHEESE AND I
[01:10:17] THINK THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ARE GOING TO START MOVING FORWARD WITHOUT HIM.
[01:10:21] >> IS THIS A VINDICATION OF THE STRATEGY OF THE PRIME MINISTER
[01:10:23] AND YOU TO WALK AWAY FROM THE -- THE PRIME MINISTER WALKED AWAY
[01:10:26] FROM THE DEAL IN AUGUST, AND YOS
[01:10:30] THIS A VINDICATION OF THAT STRATEGY? >> I'VE ALWAYS SAID TO THE PRIME
[01:10:33] MINISTER NO DEAL IS BETTER THAN ANY DEAL. WE'RE WORKING SO WELL TOGETHER.
[01:10:37] ALL OF US, COLLABORATIVELY. NOT JUST MYSELF AND THE PRIME
[01:10:41] MINISTER BUT ALL THE PREMIERS ACROSS OUR COUNTRY.
[01:10:44] SO WE'RE UNITED. WE'RE MOVING FORWARD AND NOW I
[01:10:47] THINK THIS GIVES US A LITTLE MORE LEVERAGE. BUT, AGAIN, I WANT TO EMPHASIZE
[01:10:51] THE WAR'S NOT OVER AND WE'RE
[01:10:53] GOING FACE-OFF TO HAVE TO .
[01:10:57] [ Inaudible Question from Reporter ] >> YEAH, GREAT QUESTION.
[01:11:01] IT'S ABOUT BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS. I'VE BEEN GOING BACK AND FORTH
[01:11:04] WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE. I GOT A MESSAGE FROM A CONGRESS
[01:11:08] PERSON IN MICHIGAN, DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS PERSON, HAPPY AS
[01:11:11] ANYTHING AND I SAID LET'S CONTINUE BUILDING OUR
[01:11:15] RELATIONSHIP. WE'RE NUMBER ONE TRADING PARTNER IS MICHIGAN.
[01:11:19] THE AUTO SECTOR DOWN IN THE U.S.
[01:11:23] LOST $110 BILLION BECAUSE OF THE
[01:11:25] TERRIBLE TARIFFS AND IT'S ABOUT UNCERTAINTY.
[01:11:28] BUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SPOKE
[01:11:30] AND I COULDN'T BE HAPPIER. THEY CAN BLAME EVERYONE THEY
[01:11:34] WANT, BUT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS TO LOOK IN THE MIRROR.
[01:11:37] TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE
[01:11:39] RESULTS OF LAST NIGHT.
[01:11:42] [ Inaudible Question from Reporter ] >> I'M WILLING TO WORK WITH ANYONE.
[01:11:46] I KNOW THE NEW SENATOR WANTS ONE
[01:11:49] THING, JOBS, PROSPERITY, ECONOMIC GROWTH IN MICHIGAN AND
[01:11:53] SO DOES THE NEW GOVERNOR. SO WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE
[01:11:56] BUILDING A GREAT RELATIONSHIP.
[01:11:58] >> HOW SHOULD CANADA GO ABOUT
[01:12:01] DOING A TRADE DEAL NOW, RELIEVING THE TARIFFS NOW THAT
[01:12:05] WE HAVE THE RESULTS OF LAST NIGHT? WHAT'S THE FIRST STEP?
[01:12:07] >> I THINK THE FIRST STEP IS
[01:12:09] SITTING DOWN AND BUILDING THOSE
[01:12:11] RELATIONSHIPS AS I MENTION.
[01:12:14] THE GOVERNORS HAVE BIG SAY IN THE U.S. AND PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS
[01:12:18] TO START LISTENING. YOU KNOW, HE LOST A BIG ELECTION LAST NIGHT.
[01:12:20] HE LOST A LOT OF SEATS NO MATTER
[01:12:24] IF IT'S IN THE SENATE OR IN CONGRESS. HE HAS TO START LISTENING TO THE PEOPLE.
[01:12:27] IF AND THAT'S UP TO THE PRIME
[01:12:31] MINISTER TO SIT DOWN WITH THEM. I KNOW THEY'VE BEEN TALKING OVER
[01:12:35] THE LAST LITTLE WHILE AND LET'S -- YOU KNOW, LET'S DO
[01:12:38] EVERYTHING WE CAN TO GET RID OF THESE TARIFFS AND SHOW
[01:12:41] PROSPERITY IN BOTH COUNTRIES. THAT'S WHAT WE'LL CREATE
[01:12:45] OPPORTUNITIES IN BOTH COUNTRIES BY GETTING RID OF THE TARIFFS.
[01:12:48] >> DO YOU THINK WE CAN TRUST -- AS CANADIANS, WE CAN TRUST OUR
[01:12:51] DEALINGS WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP?
[01:12:53] >> I CAN'T TRUST HIM AS FAR AS I CAN THROW HIM.
[01:12:57] THAT'S MY PERSONAL OPINION. MAYBE THE PRIME MINISTER FEELS
[01:12:59] DIFFERENTLY. BUT HAS SHOWN OVER AND OVER
[01:13:02] AGAIN THAT HE CAN'T BE TRUSTED. HE'LL MAKE A DEAL, WAKE UP IN
[01:13:06] THE MORNING AND CHANGE THE DEAL. THAT -- THE TARIFFS IN JANUARY
[01:13:09] ARE REAL.
[01:13:12] THEY'RE AS REAL AS I'M STANDING HERE, NO MATTER IF IT'S THE AUTO SECTOR.
[01:13:15] WE SAW A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, MAYBE LAST WEEK, ABOUT OUR WASTE.
[01:13:19] YOU KNOW, HE WANTS TO TARIFF OUR WASTE.
[01:13:22] 50% TARIFF. I'VE BEEN SAYING SINCE I'VE BEEN A CITY COUNCILLOR, WE HAVE TO BE
[01:13:26] RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR OWN WASTE.
[01:13:28] WE HAVE TO LOOK AT DIFFERENT
[01:13:32] METHODS OF GETTING RID OF OUR
[01:13:34] WASTE AND COPENHAGEN IS ONE GOOD EXAMPLE.
[01:13:36] I WAS READING UP ON HOW THEY'RE TURNING THEIR WASTE INTO ENERGY
[01:13:39] AND I ALWAYS SAY FROM TRASH TO CASH.
[01:13:43] I KNOW WE HAVE THAT IN PEEL WHICH IS BEING EXPANDED AND WE
[01:13:47] HAVE IT IN DURHAM REGION THAT'S BEING EXPANDED. THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO DO AND
[01:13:50] THE EUROPEANS ARE SO MUCH FURTHER AHEAD THAN WE ARE ON THIS.
[01:13:53] WE HAVE TO TAKE WHAT WORKS IN
[01:13:57] EUROPE AND ADOPT IT HERE IN
[01:13:59] ONTARIO AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
[01:14:03] >> PREMIER, ON -- >> THAT WAS ONTARIO'S PREMIER
[01:14:05] DOUG FORD REACTING TO THE U.S. MID-TERM ELECTION RESULTS WHICH
[01:14:08] SAW A MAJOR SHIFT IN POWER WITH
[01:14:11] DEMOCRATS SECURING CONTROL OF CONGRESS.
[01:14:13] IT WAS SEEN ALSO AS A BELOW TO DONALD TRUMP.
[01:14:17] DOUG FORD SAID HE WAS DOING CARTWHEELS AFTER HEARING THE
[01:14:20] RESULTS. HE'S BEEN A BIG CRITIC OF THE U.S. PRESIDENT.
[01:14:23] EPP SAYS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN AND THE COST OF
[01:14:26] LIVING, THE WAR ON IRAN AND THE
[01:14:28] IMPACT OF THE TRADE WAR WITH CANADA WERE MAJOR FACTORS IN HIS
[01:14:32] OPINION AND HE SAYS AS SOON AS IT'S POSSIBLE, HE WILL HAVE HIS PROVINCIAL MINISTERS HEAD DOWN
[01:14:36] TO WASHINGTON TO MEET WITH STATE REPRESENTATIVES AND HE, TOO,
[01:14:40] WILL ALSO BE MEETING WITH GOVERNORS AS SOON AS HE CAN TO
[01:14:43] TRY TO ADVANCE ANY SORT OF DEAL WITH CANADA AND ADVANCE ALSO
[01:14:47] CANADA'S MESSAGE.
[01:14:51] >>> MICHIGANDERS, WE WANT OUR TAXES SPENT HERE FOR SCHOOLS HERE AND HEALTH CARE HERE AND
[01:14:55] INFRASTRUCTURE HERE.
[01:14:57] WE DON'T WANT OUR MONEY SENT TO
[01:14:59] DO APARTHEID OR GENOCIDAL WARS.
[01:15:04] SO MIKE, ENJOY YOUR RETIREMENT.
[01:15:06] [ Cheering ] I KNOW YOU HAVE A HOUSE IN
[01:15:09] FLORIDA AND TWO YACHTS.
[01:15:10] THE YOU CHOSE HATE AND MICHIGAN
[01:15:18] CHOSE HOPE. >> THAT'S ABDUL EL-SAYED ONE OF THE BIG WINNERS FROM A NIGHT OF
[01:15:21] BIG WINS FOR THE DEMOCRATS
[01:15:24] TAKING MICHIGAN'S OPEN SENATE SEAT.
[01:15:27] HE'S THE FIRST ASYLUM ELECTED TO THE UPPER CHAMBER.
[01:15:30] IT'S A BREAKTHROUGH FOR THE
[01:15:32] DEMOCRATIC PROGRESSIVE WIN. THEY'RE BLAMING TRUMP FOR THEIR
[01:15:36] LOSS IN WHAT WAS A TIGHT RACE. >> I'M NOT HAPPY WITH PRESIDENT
[01:15:40] TRUMP. IF HE WAS ON THE BALLOT, HE
[01:15:43] WOULD HAVE WON BIG. THAT'S HIS EGO, HE CAUSED A LOT
[01:15:47] OF THIS. >> I THINK THAT PEOPLE ARE
[01:15:50] SHORTSIGHTEDLY FOCUSING ON
[01:15:53] THINGS LIKE GAS PRICES AND OUR INVOLVEMENT IN THE WAR RATHER
[01:15:56] THAN LOOKING AT THE LONG-TERM
[01:15:59] EFFECTS OF THEIR VOTES THAT THEY'RE CASTING.
[01:16:02] >> WHEN IT COMES TO CONSERVATIVE WINNING YOUTH UNDER THE AGE OF
[01:16:05] 30, TURNOUT IS GOING TO LOOK
[01:16:09] PRETTY LOW AND I THINK THAT'S KIND OF THE LESSON HERE TO TAKE
[01:16:13] REALLY. >> Aarti: THE CBC'S MEAGAN FITZPATRICK IS ON THE STORY AND
[01:16:16] JOINS ME FROM DETROIT. SO WE HEARD FROM SOME
[01:16:20] DISAPPOINTED REPUBLICANS THERE, YOU'VE BEEN SPEAKING TO SOME PEOPLE WHO WERE OUT IN DETROIT
[01:16:24] TODAY. WHAT ARE THEY SAYING TO YOU? >> Reporter: YEAH, WE'VE BEEN
[01:16:27] STOPPING PEOPLE ON THE STREET ON THIS RAINY MORNING IN DETROIT TO
[01:16:30] ASK THEM FOR THEIR REACTION TO
[01:16:32] THE RESULTS LAST NIGHT. HERE IN MICHIGAN AND ALSO THE
[01:16:36] BROADER RESULTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
[01:16:38] AND PEOPLE ARE TELLING ME THAT THEY GOT THE CHANGE THEY WERE
[01:16:41] LOOKING FOR. THAT WAS A COMMON THEME I HEARD FROM VOTERS.
[01:16:45] I WAS TALKING TO YESTERDAY AT A
[01:16:47] POLLING STATION AND AT THE ABDUL
[01:16:50] EL-SAYED AND THE OTHER MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS GATHERING LAST NIGHT.
[01:16:53] WHEN I WAS TALKING TO THEM AND TALKING TO PEOPLE THIS MORNING
[01:16:56] ABOUT WHAT'S BEHIND THIS CHANGE, WHY THE DEMOCRATS WERE SO
[01:17:00] SUCCESSFUL LAST NIGHT, PEOPLE ARE SAYING THAT THEY THINK
[01:17:04] PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HASN'T KEPT HIS PROMISE THEY MADE WHEN HE WAS UP FOR RE-ELECTION TWO
[01:17:08] YEARS AGO TO MAKE LIFE MORE AFFORDABLE FOR PEOPLE AND PEOPLE
[01:17:11] HERE ARE STRUGGLING. THAT IS WHAT THEY KEEP TELLING ME.
[01:17:14] THE PRICE OF GAS, THE PRICE OF
[01:17:16] GROCERIES, IT'S JUST HARD FOR PEOPLE AND SO THEY WERE SAYING
[01:17:19] THAT THE MESSAGE FROM ABDUL EL-SAYED IN PARTICULAR REALLY
[01:17:23] RESONATED WITH THEM. HE WAS CAMPAIGNING ON GETTING
[01:17:26] MONEY OUT OF POLITICS, PUTTING
[01:17:27] MONEY IN PEOPLE'S POCKETS AND UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOR
[01:17:31] PEOPLE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.
[01:17:33] AND SO PEOPLE SAYING THEY LIKED
[01:17:36] WHAT THEY HEARD FROM HIM AND THEY'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING WHAT HE CAN DO IN
[01:17:40] WASHINGTON. HERE'S A BIT MORE OF WHAT I'VE BEEN HEARING FROM VOTERS THIS MORNING.
[01:17:44] >> I'M HAPPY ABOUT IT.
[01:17:46] I'M ECSTATIC ABOUT IT TO BE HONEST WITH YOU.
[01:17:48] I THINK THAT DONALD TRUMP HAS
[01:17:51] OVERSTEPPED HIS REACH AND SO NOW
[01:17:53] WE HAVE SOME PEOPLE THAT'S THERE
[01:17:55] TO KIND OF BLOCK HIM OR TO HONE
[01:17:58] HIM IN A LITTLE BIT.
[01:18:00] >> IT'S A CLEAR MESSAGE THAT
[01:18:02] THINGS NEED TO CHANGE.
[01:18:05] WE -- UP AND DOWN THE BOARD, ACROSS THE COUNTRY, EVERYBODY IS
[01:18:09] KIND OF FED UP WITH WHAT'S GOING ON. SO WE'RE LOOKING FOR A CHANGE.
[01:18:13] WE'RE LOOKING FOR A NEW DIRECTION.
[01:18:16] >> I THINK HE WILL DO A GREAT JOB.
[01:18:18] HE'S HAD A LOT OF SUPPORT
[01:18:21] CERTAINLY FROM DETROIT AND
[01:18:24] AFRICAN AMERICANS WHO GOT BEHIND HIM.
[01:18:27] SO I THINK HE WILL DO GREAT. >> WHAT DO YOU WANT HIM TO FOCUS ON?
[01:18:31] WHAT SHOULD HIS PRIORITY BE? >> DO WHEN WHAT HE CAN DO.
[01:18:35] ONE PERSON CAN'T REDUCE PRICES. WE KNOW IT TAKES A TEAM AND
[01:18:39] CONGRESS. >> Reporter: SO NOW THESE
[01:18:42] VOTERS HERE IN DETROIT ARE
[01:18:44] COUNTING ON HIM AND THE OTHER DEMOCRATS ELECTED LAST NIGHT TO
[01:18:48] KEEP THEIR PROMISES TO VOTERS TO
[01:18:50] MAKE LIFE MORE AFFORDABLE. >> Aarti: MEAGAN, THE ECONOMY
[01:18:54] WAS A MAJOR FACTOR AS WE HAVE BEEN SCUFFING.
[01:18:57] THE TRADE WAR WITH CANADA WAS A BIGGER PART OF THIS CAMPAIGN IN
[01:19:01] MICHIGAN, MAYBE MORE SO THAN A LOT OF OTHER STATES.
[01:19:04] REMIND US OF THE ISSUE OF TARIFFS AND HOW IT IMPACTED CAMPAIGNS.
[01:19:07] >> Reporter: YEAH, DEFINITELY WAS AN ISSUE HERE IN MICHIGAN
[01:19:10] WHICH IS A STATE THAT IS FEELING
[01:19:11] THE IMPACT OF THE U.S. TARIFFS ON CANADA.
[01:19:15] THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR HERE IN
[01:19:17] PARTICULAR, THE AUTO SECTOR AS WELL.
[01:19:20] AND EL-SAYED INCORPORATED INTO
[01:19:25] HIS CAMPAIGN BLAMING THE TARIFFS IN PART FOR HIGHER PRICES AND
[01:19:28] POINTED TO THE WAR IN IRAN AS WELL. SO WE HEARD HIM THROUGH THE
[01:19:32] CAMPAIGN CRITICIZING THE U.S.
[01:19:34] TARIFFS ON CANADA, BUT HE'S NOT COMPLETELY AGAINST TARIFFS ALL TOGETHER.
[01:19:38] HE JUST WAS SAYING THAT THEY NEED TO BE USED IN A MORE
[01:19:41] TARGETED WAY, A MORE -- NOT IN A
[01:19:45] HAPPEN ARSON WAY WHICH IS WHAT
[01:19:48] HE SAYS TRUMP IS DOING. WE HEARD HIM DEFEND HOW NICE
[01:19:51] CANADIANS ARE AND HOW CANADA
[01:19:54] PRE-EMPTIVELY APOLOGIZE BEFORE THEY HAVE DONE ANYTHING WRONG.
[01:19:58] HE OFTEN MENTIONED CANADA.
[01:20:00] BUT WE ALSO HEARD MIKE ROGERS,
[01:20:03] HIS POSITION ON TARIFFS.
[01:20:06] HE HAD TO WALK A TRICKY LINE ACKNOWLEDGING THE TARIFFS HAD AN
[01:20:10] IMPACT IN THE STATE BUT 23409 NT
[01:20:14] CRITICIZING TRUMP TOO HEAVILY.
[01:20:17] HE PUT OUT A CAMPAIGN AD FILMING
[01:20:19] HIM IN A BAR DRINKING A LABATT BLUE BEER AND SAYING CANADIANS
[01:20:22] AREN'T THE ENEMY. AND TRYING TO TELL VOTERS HERE
[01:20:26] HE WOULD BE THE ONE TO HELP GET
[01:20:29] A DEAL DONE BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.
[01:20:33] ASIDE FROM TRADE, I'LL MENTION QUICKLY ANOTHER ROLE CANADA
[01:20:36] PLAYED IN THE CAMPAIGN WAS ON HEALTH CARE. EL-SAYED WAS CAMPAIGNING ON
[01:20:40] HEALTH CARE FOR ALL, MEDICARE FOR ALL. AT ONE POINT HE TRAVELLED TO THE
[01:20:44] CANADIAN SIDE OF THE BORDER, TO WINDSOR, WHICH IS NOT TOO FAR
[01:20:48] AWAY, AND TALKED TO CANADIANS ABOUT HEALTH CARE COSTS. SO THAT WAS ANOTHER WAY THAT
[01:20:51] CANADA CAME UP ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL.
[01:20:55] IN THE END, OBVIOUSLY EL-SAYED WAS VICTORIOUS LAST NIGHT AND
[01:20:58] THE QUESTION WILL BE WHAT CAN HE
[01:21:01] AND THE OTHER DEMOCRATS ELECTED
[01:21:03] LAST NIGHT DO ABOUT THE THE
[01:21:07] TRADE WAR THEY'RE NOT BE SWORN IN UNTIL JANUARY.
[01:21:10] IT WILL BE SOME TIME BEFORE THEY
[01:21:13] TAKE THEIR SEATS IN CONGRESS AND MIGHT BE ABLE TO USE THE
[01:21:16] INFLUENCE THEY'LL HAVE. WE'LL SEE. DEFINITELY IT WAS INTERESTING TO
[01:21:19] SEE HOW CANADA PLAYED A ROLE HERE IN MICHIGAN IN THIS CAMPAIGN IN PARTICULAR.
[01:21:23] >> Aarti: THANKS FOR THIS, MEAGAN. THE CBC'S MEAGAN FITZPATRICK IN
[01:21:27] DETROIT. >>> WE WANT TO TAKE TO YOU WASHINGTON NOW.
[01:21:31] CHUCK SCHUMER IS SPEAKING AFTER
[01:21:33] A BIG VICTORY FOR HIS DEMOCRATIC PARTY. LET'S LISTEN IN.
[01:21:37] >> WE CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT,
[01:21:39] THEY ENTRUSTED US WITH THE
[01:21:41] MAJORITY TO DO WHAT THEY, THE
[01:21:44] AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT. REPUBLICANS RECEIVED THAT
[01:21:48] OPPORTUNITY TWO YEARS AGO.
[01:21:50] AND COMPLETELY SQUANDERED IT.
[01:21:54] THE GOP MISREAD AMERICANS' DEMAND FOR CHANGE AS A MANDATE
[01:21:57] TO DO TRUMP'S SELF SERVING
[01:22:01] BIDDING AND TRUMP SPENT HALF HIS TIME TALKING ABOUT THINGS THAT
[01:22:05] WERE IRRELEVANT TO THEIR LIVES,
[01:22:11] ANNOYING, THE REFLECTING POOL,
[01:22:15] THE NEW WALL, BUT MOST OF THE
[01:22:18] TIME, HE DID THINGS THAT HURT THEM.
[01:22:21] IT RAISED THEIR HEALTH CARE COSTS. IT RAISED THEIR ELECTRICITY BILLS.
[01:22:24] IT RAISED THEIR FUEL -- THEIR
[01:22:27] GASOLINE AND DIESEL COSTS.
[01:22:31] REPUBLICAN EYES WERE SO GLUED TO TRUMP'S TRUTH SOCIAL FEED THAT
[01:22:35] THEY MISSED THE TRUTH.
[01:22:39] STARING THEM DEAD IN THE FACE. AMERICANS HATE THE DIRECTION OUR
[01:22:42] COUNTRY IS GOING IN RIGHT NOW.
[01:22:46] SO NOW REPUBLICANS WILL HAVE TO CHOOSE WHETHER TO KEEP LISTENING
[01:22:49] TO THE NONSENSE THAT'S COMING
[01:22:52] OUT OF 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
[01:22:55] OR START ACTING IN THE INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
[01:22:59] IF THEY CONTINUE TO EMBRACE
[01:23:03] TRUMP, THEY'RE GOING TO BE FOLLOWING HIM RIGHT OVER THE
[01:23:06] CLIFF AS THIS ELECTION HAS SHOWN AND IT WILL GET EVEN WORSE FOR
[01:23:10] THEM. WHAT IS OUR ASSIGNMENT? FIRST, AMERICANS WANT WASHINGTON
[01:23:13] TO BRING DOWN THE COST OF LIVING.
[01:23:17] THE ANGUISH THAT AMERICAN FAMILIES FEEL AS THEY ASK
[01:23:21] THEMSELVES DO I PAY FOR GAS TO DRIVE TO WORK OR GROCERIES TO
[01:23:25] FEED THE KIDS? DO I PAY FOR HEALTH CARE OR
[01:23:28] ELECTRICITY TO KEEP MY FAMILY
[01:23:29] WARM THIS WINTER?
[01:23:32] SECOND AMERICANS WANT US TO CLEAN UP CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT.
[01:23:36] THEY KNOW THAT TRUMP IS THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN
[01:23:39] HISTORY.
[01:23:41] NO AMERICAN SHOULD HAVE TO MAKE
[01:23:44] TRADE OFFICE AT THE SUPERMARKET WHILE TRUMP IS MAKING INSIDER
[01:23:48] TRADES ON THE STOCK MARKET.
[01:23:51] AMERICANS ARE CALLING FOR ACCOUNTABILITY NOT ACCOMMODATION
[01:23:54] AND THIRD THEY WANT US TO CHECK ON TRUMP'S CHAOS AT HOME AND
[01:23:58] ABROAD. WE'VE SEEN TOO MANY AMERICANS
[01:24:00] DIE ON OUR STREETS AND IN
[01:24:03] UNIFORM OVERSEAS.
[01:24:05] BECAUSE OF TRUMP'S ERRATIC JUDGMENT.
[01:24:07] THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE FIGHTING FOR IN IRAN.
[01:24:10] HE NEVER MADE IT CLEAR. HE CHANGES HIS MIND DAY TO DAY
[01:24:14] AND MINUTE TO MINUTE. THIS WAR MUST END.
[01:24:17] IT MUST END.
[01:24:20] MAKE NO MISTAKE. WHENEVER TRUMP DEFIES THE WILL
[01:24:24] OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, OR THE LAW, WE WILL LAUNCH
[01:24:27] INVESTIGATIONS, TAKE HIM TO COURT AND ENTANGLE HIM IN
[01:24:31] LEGISLATIVE RAZOR WIRE.
[01:24:33] THE DAYS OF TRUMP'S -- FOR THE
[01:24:47] AMERICAN PEOPLE.
[01:24:49] BUT IF THERE'S ONE HOPEFUL --
[01:24:51] I'D LIKE TO CONCLUDE ON THIS NOTE.
[01:24:55] IF THERE'S ONE HOPEFUL OPTIMISTIC TAKE AWAY, REMEMBER
[01:24:58] FROM THIS ELECTION, OUR DEMOCRACY RUNS DEEP.
[01:25:02] VERY DEEP. OUR FOUNDERS CREATED THIS AMAZING DOCUMENT, THE
[01:25:06] CONSTITUTION. THEY ENVISIONED CO-EQUAL
[01:25:09] BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT, WHAT THEY SAID WAS AMBITION WAS MADE
[01:25:13] TO COUNTER ACT AMBITION.
[01:25:15] BUT WHEN AMBITION TURNS TO BLIND
[01:25:19] LOYALTY, THERE'S ONLY ONE LAST
[01:25:20] FIRE WALL.
[01:25:23] THEY THOUGHT THE LEGISLATURE WOULD CHECK A KING LIKE
[01:25:27] PRESIDENT. THIS LEGISLATURE, THIS SENATE, HAS FAILED.
[01:25:30] AND SO THERE WAS ONE LAST FIREWALL.
[01:25:34] IN OUR SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND
[01:25:37] BALANCES, WHERE POWER DERIVES FROM THE CONSENT TO THE GOVERNMENT, ELECTIONS HAVE
[01:25:41] ALWAYS BEEN THE STRONGEST LEVER
[01:25:44] AMERICANS HAVE TO COUNTER A
[01:25:46] WANNABE KING.
[01:25:50] AS LONG AS AMERICANS ARE WILLING TO USE IT.
[01:25:53] YESTERDAY, AMERICA DID.
[01:25:56] EVEN DURING THE MOST DIFFICULT TIMES, IN THESE TWO YEARS HAVE
[01:25:59] BEEN AMONG THEM, AMERICANS HAVE
[01:26:02] NEVER LOST FAITH THAT THEY CAN CHANGE THIS COUNTRY WITH THEIR
[01:26:06] VOTE.
[01:26:08] THE ONUS IS NOW ON US TO PROVE
[01:26:11] THEM RIGHT.
[01:26:16] [ Indiscernible Interjections ] >> NO NO NO NO. >> HAVE YOU SPOKEN TO THE
[01:26:20] PRESIDENT YET ABOUT HOW YOU'RE GOING TO BE THE FIREWALL AND --
[01:26:23] >> NO, NOT YET. >> HOW ARE DEMOCRATS GOING TO
[01:26:27] END THE WAR WITH IRAN? ARE YOU GOING TO USE DEFENCE FUNDING AS LEVERAGE?
[01:26:31] >> LOOK, WE ARE GOING TO END THE WAR.
[01:26:33] WE HAVE SOME REPUBLICANS ALREADY
[01:26:35] WHO JOINED US IN ENDING THE WAR.
[01:26:38] AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS HAD THE
[01:26:39] POWER OF THE PURSE AS ONE OF THE
[01:26:42] WAYS OF DETERRING A PRESIDENT
[01:26:45] WHO DOES WAR WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
[01:26:48] >> YOU TOOK A LOT OF CRITICISM
[01:26:50] IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS AS
[01:26:52] LEADER, FRUSTRATED DEMOCRATS, IS THIS A VINDICATION FOR YOU AND
[01:26:56] YOUR VISION OF THE SENATE AND -- >> YOU KNOW, OKAY.
[01:26:59] >> RED AND PURPLE STATES. >> THIS IS NOT ABOUT ME.
[01:27:02] THIS IS ABOUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY WANT AND
[01:27:06] WHAT THEY NEED AND WHAT WE CAN
[01:27:08] DO TO HELP THEM PLAIN AND SIMPLE. YES.
[01:27:12] GO AHEAD. IGOR.
[01:27:14] >> WERE YESTERDAY'S RESULTS A
[01:27:17] MANDATE FOR DEMOCRATS TO IMPEACH
[01:27:19] PETE HEGSETH?
[01:27:21] >> EVERYONE WILL MAKE THEIR OWN
[01:27:24] INTERPRETATION IN TERMS OF HEGSETH. [ Inaudible Question from Reporter ]
[01:27:27] >> JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS, IS THIS
[01:27:29] A BLANKET HOLD OR IS THERE ROOM FOR BIPARTISANSHIP?
[01:27:33] >> LOOK, WENT JUDICIAL NOMINEES
[01:27:35] LIKE WE SHOWED IN 23 AND 24.
[01:27:40] WHO OBEY THE LAW, WHO ARE -- WHO
[01:27:42] HAVE FILLED ELIMINATE TO F
[01:27:50] LAW. >> SENATE REPUBLICS RAN ON THIS MESSAGE THAT SENATE DEMOCRATS
[01:27:53] WOULD ABOLISH THE FILIBUSTER,
[01:27:57] NUKE THE FILL FILIBUSTER --
[01:28:03] >> THE FIRST THING WE'LL DO IS
[01:28:05] REDUCE PEOPLE'S COSTS AND WORK
[01:28:07] THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS SO IT DOES.
[01:28:11] THANK YOU, EVERYBODY. >> CAN YOU WORK WITH THE THE PRESIDENT?
[01:28:15] >> Aarti: WE WERE LISTENING THERE --
[01:28:17] >> WE ARE GOING TO WORK HARD --
[01:28:21] WE'RE GOING TO WORK HARD TO DRIVE COSTS DOWN WITH THE
[01:28:24] PRESIDENT OR WITHOUT HIM.
[01:28:29] PERIOD.
[01:28:29] >> Aarti: FINAL COMMENTS
[01:28:33] THERE, CHUCK SCHUMER DELIVERING REMARKS, REPORTING TO THE
[01:28:35] OUTCOME OF THE U.S. MID-TERMS.
[01:28:38] OF COURSE WHERE WE KNOW THE DEMOCRATS TOOK CONTROL OF CONGRESS.
[01:28:41] SOME OF THE REMARKS HE MADE THERE SAYING -- LAYING OUT THE
[01:28:45] PRIORITIES FOR DEMOCRATS AS THEY MOVE FORWARD SUGGESTING NUMBER
[01:28:47] ONE THE FOCUS IS ON BRINGING DOWN THE COST OF LIVING AND YOU
[01:28:51] HEARD THE FINAL COMMENTS FROM HIM THERE THAT WOULD BE WITH OR WITHOUT THE PRESIDENT.
[01:28:55] SECOND, HE SAYS AMERICANS WANT US TO CLEAN UP THE CORRUPTION IN
[01:28:59] GOVERNMENT AND ALSO THEY WANT US TO CHECK ON TRUMP'S CHAOS AT
[01:29:02] HOME AND ABROAD. CERTAINLY WE KNOW THAT THE WAR
[01:29:04] IN IRAN HAS BEEN A LARGE FACTOR
[01:29:07] THAT WEIGHED IN ON VOTERS' MINDS AS THEY CAST A BALLOT.
[01:29:10] I WANT TO BRING IN THE CBC'S MARK CARCASOLE AS HE WAS LISTENING IN.
[01:29:13] HE JOINS US NOW LIVE FROM WASHINGTON. YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A REAL
[01:29:17] COMMITMENT THERE, A PLEDGE, FROM
[01:29:19] CHUCK CHUCK SCHUMER SAYING WE WILL END THE WAR WITH IRAN.
[01:29:23] WE WILL USE IF WE NEED TO THE
[01:29:25] POWER OF THE PURSE AND THERE ARE SOME REPUBLICANS ALREADY ON BOARD.
[01:29:29] WHAT MORE DID YOU MAKE OF THAT SORT OF PRIORITY LIST THAT WE
[01:29:32] HEARD FROM THE SENATE MINORITY LEADER? >> Reporter: IT'S CLEAR THAT
[01:29:36] ENDING THE WAR IN IRAN IS A BIG PART OF IT, SENATOR SCHUMER
[01:29:40] SAYING IN THOSE REMARKS THAT MOST AMERICANS THAT HE SPEAKS TO
[01:29:43] ANYWAY DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR THERE.
[01:29:47] THE THIRD PRIORITY IN THAT THREE PRIORITY LIST, CHECKING TRUMP'S
[01:29:51] CHAOS AT HOME AND ABROAD. I TOOK THAT TO MEAN NOT JUST THE
[01:29:55] WAR IN IRAN, BUT PERHAPS THE
[01:29:58] I.C.E. SITUATION IN THE E.U. AS WELL WHERE SOME AMERICAN
[01:30:00] CITIZENS HAVE BEEN KILLED AT THE HANDS OF I.C.E. OFFICERS.
[01:30:03] HE MIGHT POTENTIALLY ALSO BE
[01:30:05] ALLUDING TO THE SITUATION IN
[01:30:09] GAZA AS WELL WITH THE RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL BEING
[01:30:13] SOMETHING THAT HAS COME UP FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP HIMSELF.
[01:30:16] THE FUNDING GOING TOWARDS ISRAEL. IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHAT HE
[01:30:19] MEANS THERE. HE DIDN'T GIVE DETAILS ABOUT HOW EXACTLY THE DEMOCRATS WOULD GO
[01:30:23] ABOUT ENDING THE WAR IN IRAN.
[01:30:26] HE SAID WITH OR WITHOUT THE PRESIDENT. ALREADY REPUBLICANS THAT HE
[01:30:29] FEELS CONFIDENT THAT THEY CAN WORK WITH TO HELP MAKE THAT
[01:30:32] HAPPEN AND THAT THE PURSE WOULD
[01:30:34] BE A BIG PART OF THAT CERTAINLY.
[01:30:37] REGARDING THE DEMOCRATS' WIN YESTERDAY, THE RECORD NUMBERS
[01:30:40] THEY SAW AND WHAT SPAWNED IT, HE
[01:30:42] SAYS THAT THIS WAS ESSENTIALLY A SQUANDERED OPPORTUNITY BY THE
[01:30:46] REPUBLICANS. THEY WERE GIVEN THE SAME OPPORTUNITY THE DEMOCRATS WERE
[01:30:48] GIVEN YESTERDAY TO DO WHAT THEY WANT, TO DO WHAT THE AMERICAN
[01:30:52] PEOPLE WANT AND THE REPUBLICANS SQUANDERED IT AND INSTEAD THEY
[01:30:55] RALLIED BEHIND THE PRESIDENT,
[01:30:57] DONALD TRUMP, WHO HE CALLS SELF SERVING.
[01:31:00] SPENT HALF HIS TIME DISCUSSING THINGS THAT WERE IRRELEVANT TO
[01:31:03] THE AMERICANS, BE LIKE THE REFLECTING POOLS, RENOVATIONS
[01:31:06] AND VANITY PROJECTS IN THE CAPITAL DISTRICT.
[01:31:09] HE SAYS AMERICANS HATE THE DIRECTION OUR COUNTRY IS GOING
[01:31:12] IN AND FEELS THE DEMOCRATS WILL RIGHT THE SHIP. NOW AS WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT
[01:31:16] ALL DAY, HOW EASY THAT WILL BE
[01:31:18] TO DO, THAT'S A WHOLE OTHER DISCUSSION BECAUSE, YES, WHILE
[01:31:21] THE DEMOCRATS NOW HAVE THE POWER TO PUT FORWARD THEIR OWN
[01:31:24] LEGISLATION, AND BLOCK REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION, ANYTHING
[01:31:27] THEY COULD PUT FORWARD CAN BE BLOCKED BY PRESIDENT DONALD
[01:31:30] TRUMP AND HIS VETO POWER. THE PRESIDENT CAN ALSO GET
[01:31:33] AROUND CONGRESS USING HIS EXECUTIVE POWER. IN ORDER TO GET AROUND A
[01:31:37] PRESIDENTIAL VETO, THE DEMOCRATS
[01:31:38] NEED A TWO-THIRDS SUPERMAJORITY.
[01:31:42] THEY DON'T HAVE THAT UNLESS THEY
[01:31:44] CAN GET REPUBLICANS AND INDEPENDENTS ON BOARD TO VOTE WITH THEM.
[01:31:48] >> Aarti: MARK, THANK YOU. THE CBC'S MARK CARCASOLE IN
[01:31:51] WASHINGTON. >>> AS WE'VE BEEN REPORTING,
[01:31:54] DEMOCRATS HAVE WON CONTROL OF CONGRESS. SECURING AT LEAST 228 PLUS SEATS
[01:31:57] IN THE HOUSE. AND ADDING SEVEN IN THE SENATE.
[01:32:01] TWO SENATE RACES REMAIN TOSS UPS, ALASKA AND MISSISSIPPI.
[01:32:05] A DEMOCRAT HASN'T WON A SENATE RACE IN MISSISSIPPI SINCE 1982.
[01:32:09] SO WHAT DOES THIS BLUE WAVE MEAN FOR DONALD TRUMP AND WHAT DOES
[01:32:12] IT MEAN FOR CANADA? WE'LL CONTINUE TO KEEP AN EYE ON
[01:32:16] THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS HERE ON
[01:32:17] CBC NEWS NETWORK.
[01:34:03] >> Aarti: WE ARE CONTINUING TO COVER THE DEMOCRATS' TAKEOVER OF THE U.S. CONGRESS AND PERHAPS
[01:34:06] ONE OF THE BIGGEST UPSETS OF THE
[01:34:08] MID-TERMS WAS THE UNSEATING OF
[01:34:10] SUSAN COLLINS IN MAINE, THE
[01:34:13] FAMOUSLY MODERATE REPUBLICAN
[01:34:15] SENATOR WAS ELECTED IN 1996, 30 YEARS AGO.
[01:34:19] >> WE WENT ALL OVER THE STATE
[01:34:21] AND I'VE GOT TO TELL YOU, THE
[01:34:24] CROWDS WERE HUGE.
[01:34:26] THE RECEPTION WAS WARM.
[01:34:29] AND THE RESPONSE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN BETTER.
[01:34:32] >> Aarti: THE RESPONSE AT THE BALLOT BOX WAS QUITE DIFFERENT.
[01:34:35] EVEN THOUGH THE FIVE TERM REPUBLICAN WORKED TO DISTANCE HERSELF FROM DONALD TRUMP
[01:34:39] THROUGHOUT HER CAMPAIGN, VOTING AGAINST HIS TARIFF POLICIES,
[01:34:42] MORE VOTERS IN MAINE RALLIED
[01:34:45] BEHIND DEMOCRAT TROY JACKSON.
[01:34:47] >>> SO WHERE DOES LAST NIGHT'S
[01:34:50] BLUE TSUNAMI LEAVE THE GOP?
[01:35:00] KEVIN SHERIDAN IN WASHINGTON, THANK YOU FOR MAKING TIME FOR US TODAY. >> THANK YOU.
[01:35:03] >> Aarti: I WANT TO START WITH YOUR REACTION TO THE U.S.
[01:35:07] MID-TERM ELECTION RESULTS?
[01:35:11] >> WELL, THIS WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE INEVITABLE THAT WE WOULD
[01:35:14] LOSE SOME SEATS. 90 PERCENT OF THE TIME IN A
[01:35:17] MID-TERM WHEN YOU HOLD THE WHITE HOUSE, YOU LOSE HOUSE SEATS AND
[01:35:20] 80% OF THE TIME YOU LOSE SENATE SEATS.
[01:35:23] THE MAGNITUDE WAS SURPRISING AND WHERE IT HAPPENED WAS GENUINELY
[01:35:27] SHOCKING. TEXAS, KANSAS, OHIO, IOWA.
[01:35:31] ALL RED STATES. STATES THAT JUST TWO YEARS AGO
[01:35:34] VOTED 10 POINTS OR MORE FOR DONALD TRUMP.
[01:35:36] AND SO VOTERS HAVE TURNED AROUND
[01:35:39] NOW DUE TO I THINK HIGH GAS
[01:35:41] PRICES, UNPOPULAR WAR AND SAID
[01:35:43] THEY WANT TO PUNISH REPUBLICANS AND I DON'T THINK IT'S --
[01:35:47] DEMOCRATS ARE THE BENEFICIARY OF IT, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S
[01:35:50] BECAUSE OF DEMOCRATIC POLICIES SO MUCH.
[01:35:52] IT'S JUST THEY WANTED TO PUNISH SOMEONE FOR THE COST OF LIVING
[01:35:55] AND THAT'S WHAT THEY DID.
[01:35:57] >> Aarti: THIS YOU BELIEVE WAS
[01:36:00] A VOTE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP, AGAINST TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
[01:36:03] POLICIES OVER A VOTE IN FAVOUR OF WHAT THE DEMOCRATS MAY BE PROPOSING.
[01:36:06] YOU LISTED A NUMBER OF THESE RED
[01:36:09] STATES WHERE HISTORICALLY WE HAVE NOT SEEN DEMOCRATS BE SENT
[01:36:12] TO EITHER THE SENATE OR THE HOUSE OR LEAD THE STATES AS A
[01:36:16] GOVERNOR. WHAT SURPRISED YOU THE MOST?
[01:36:20] >> WELL, THE TOTAL SWEEP IN TEXAS IS DISTURBING TO EVERY
[01:36:24] REPUBLICAN BECAUSE THAT'S THE CORNERSTONE OF REPUBLICAN --
[01:36:27] THAT ANCHORS OUR ENTIRE PARTY NATIONALLY.
[01:36:29] IF WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT GOING INTO 2028 PRESIDENTIAL
[01:36:33] ELECTION NOW, THAT'S GOING TO BE REALLY DIFFICULT.
[01:36:36] IT'S THE MATH ON THE ELECTORAL
[01:36:37] VOTES IS TOO MUCH.
[01:36:42] WHERE WE -- THE ONE BRIGHT SPOT
[01:36:45] FLORIDA WHERE RON DeSANTIS
[01:36:47] BUILD A RED WALL AND REALLY STAVED OFF ANY HARM THERE FOR
[01:36:50] THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
[01:36:52] SO BOTH SENATORS WON -- BOTH
[01:36:56] SENATE AND GOVERNOR WON.
[01:36:57] HE'S OUT MAKING HIS CASE RIGHT AWAY.
[01:37:00] SO IT SOUNDS LIKE HE MIGHT THROW
[01:37:02] HIS HAT IN THE 2028 RING SOON.
[01:37:04] >> Aarti: INTERESTING TO SEE FOLLOWING THE MID-TERMS WE START
[01:37:07] THE DISCUSSIONS OF WHO IT MIGHT BE THAT WILL COME FORWARD TO
[01:37:10] LEAD THE PARTY IN THE NEXT ELECTION. YOU MENTIONED DISTURBING TO
[01:37:14] REPUBLICANS WHEN YOU WATCH, FOR EXAMPLE, THE RESULTS COMING OUT
[01:37:18] OF TEXAS WHICH HISTORICALLY HAS
[01:37:20] BEEN A RED STATE FOR DECADES.
[01:37:22] I'M WONDERING WHEN YOU SAY DISTURBING, IS THIS A POINT OF
[01:37:25] RECKONING FOR THE REPUBLICAN
[01:37:28] PARTY? IN 2016 WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS
[01:37:31] FIRST ELECTED, THE PARTY WAS NOT
[01:37:34] NECESSARILY ONSIDE WITH HIM BUT
[01:37:36] DID, DID ACCEPT HIM AND MOVE FORWARD. IS THIS A RECKONING CHILLY WHEN
[01:37:39] IT COMES TO THE MAGA NO.
[01:37:42] MAGAZINE MAGA MOVEMENT?
[01:37:47] >> I DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING
[01:37:49] BACK TO PRE-2026 REPUBLICAN 201N
[01:37:57] PARLIAMENT. IT WILL ALWAYS CONTAIN ELEMENTS OF MAGA.
[01:37:58] I THINK A NEW MAGA WILL EMERGE.
[01:38:02] SOMEONE HAS TO COBBLE TOGETHER A
[01:38:06] COMMON SENSE -- AND PUT THAT TOGETHER AND RUN ON A NATIONAL
[01:38:09] PLATFORM WITH IT.
[01:38:10] AND THAT'S WHERE I THINK WE'RE
[01:38:13] HEADING. >> Aarti: WHERE DOES THE PARTY GO?
[01:38:17] WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS?
[01:38:20] >> REBUILD BIT BY BIT AND IT'S GOING TO BE HARD.
[01:38:23] THESE ARE RED STATES NOW IN DEMOCRAT HANDS FOR SIX YEARS. THAT'S REALLY TOUGH.
[01:38:27] WE HAVE A LOT OF BLUE STATES WE
[01:38:30] HAVE TO COMPETE IN IN 2028 AND
[01:38:33] WITH THE -- HOLDING THE WHITE
[01:38:34] HOUSE, OBVIOUSLY THE -- IT WILL
[01:38:37] BE A CHALLENGE. YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT GOING TO BE
[01:38:40] EASY BUT WE'VE DONE IT BEFORE. WE'VE BEEN LOWER THAN THIS
[01:38:44] BEFORE IN 2008 AND THIS IS A
[01:38:47] CHALLENGING TIME, BUT I THINK WE
[01:38:49] CAN COME OUT OF IT, EMERGE FROM
[01:38:52] IT A BETTER AND STRONGER PARTY. >> Aarti: IN TERMS OF WHAT THE
[01:38:56] REPUBLICANS ARE LOOKING AT
[01:38:58] DEMOCRATS WILL DO NEXT E ROBERT
[01:39:01] GARCIA'S MESSAGE ONLINE, LEADER
[01:39:04] OF THE OVERSITE DEMOCRAT COMMITTEE, LAWYER UP.
[01:39:07] THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF MESSAGES
[01:39:10] SUGGESTING THAT MEMBERS OF THE TRUMP FAMILY AND PERHAPS THE
[01:39:13] PRESIDENT HIMSELF MAY BE INVESTIGATED GOING FORWARD.
[01:39:17] DO YOU THINK THAT THAT IS -- THAT ACCOUNTABILITY PIECE IS THE
[01:39:20] RIGHT DIRECTION FOR THE DEMOCRATS TO GO?
[01:39:24] >> WELL, THE ONE THING YOU CAN GUARANTEE IS THE DEMOCRATS WILL
[01:39:27] OVERREACH AND THEY THINK THEY HAVE A MANDATE HERE.
[01:39:31] THERE WILL BE A TSUNAMI OF INVESTIGATIONS, BUT WHAT HAPPENS
[01:39:33] WHEN THAT -- WHEN THAT HAPPENS,
[01:39:36] IT HURTS THE PARTY THAT'S DOING THE INVESTIGATIONS MORE THAN IT
[01:39:39] DOES THE OTHER PARTY BECAUSE WE
[01:39:41] SAW UNDER CLINTON WHEN THE
[01:39:45] REPUBLICANS OVERREACHED ON HIM
[01:39:46] AND HE DIDN'T GET HURT IN THE
[01:39:51] MID-TERMS. DEMOCRATS WENT AFTER DRUM AND
[01:39:53] TRIED TO PUT HIM IN JAIL.
[01:39:57] I THINK IT WILL HURT THEM POLITICALLY. IF THEY FIND CORRUPTION, INVESTIGATE IT.
[01:40:01] IF THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE IT A
[01:40:04] CIRCUS, IT WILL HURT THEM. >> Aarti: WE HAVE REPORTERS ON
[01:40:08] THE GROUND SPEAKING TO VOTERS, MANY SAID AFFORDABILITY WAS TOP OF MIND.
[01:40:11] THE WAR WITH IRAN WAS TOP OF MIND AND, OF COURSE, BE IN SOME
[01:40:14] STATES, THERE WAS THE TARIFFS WITH CANADA AS WELL AND THE
[01:40:17] TRADE WAR WITH CANADA AND THE IMPACT THAT'S HAVING ON CERTAIN INDUSTRIES.
[01:40:20] IN YOUR ESTIMATION, WHAT WAS THE MAJOR FACTOR HERE?
[01:40:24] BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP SAID THIS ISN'T NECESSARILY -- HE IS NOT
[01:40:27] VIEWING THIS AS A REFERENDUM ON HIMSELF AND HIS POPULARITY BUT
[01:40:29] HE SAID THAT HE BELIEVES IT WAS THE WAR ON IRAN AND THE VICE
[01:40:33] PRESIDENT JD VANCE ECHOED THOSE SENTIMENTS. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
[01:40:37] >> WELL, IT WAS THE WAR ON IRAN.
[01:40:40] BEFORE THE WAR, THIS CURRENT VERSION OF IT, GAS PRICES WERE
[01:40:44] VERY CHEAP. AND GOING DOWN AND HE UNLEASHED
[01:40:48] ALL SORTS OF AMERICAN ENERGY AND WE HAD A GREAT STORY TO TELL GO
[01:40:51] INTO THE MID-TERMS AND PEOPLE
[01:40:53] FEELING GOOD ABOUT GAS PRICES. BUT NOW EVERY TIME YOU PASS THE
[01:40:57] PUMP YOU CAN SEE HOW MUCH GAS AND DIESEL COSTS AND IT'S SHOCKING AND IT'S NOT EVEN AS
[01:41:01] HIGH AS IT WAS UNDER BIDEN. BUT PEOPLE ARE NOT HAPPY.
[01:41:04] THEY PUNISHED BIDEN FOR IT THEN
[01:41:08] AND THEY ARE PUNISHING REPUBLICANS NOW. THE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF THE
[01:41:12] ELECTION WAS THE WAR IN IRAN AND GAS PRICES. THAT'S A FACT.
[01:41:15] HISTORY WILL JUDGE OR NOT THAT WAS ULTIMATELY THE RIGHT THING
[01:41:18] TO DO BUT THIS IS THE PUNISHMENT
[01:41:21] THAT REPUBLICANS GET FOR TAKING THIS ACTION.
[01:41:24] >> Aarti: KEVIN I WANT TO
[01:41:26] THANK YOU FOR YOUR THOUGHTS AND
[01:41:30] ANALYSIS. >> THANK YOU. >> KEVIN SHERIDAN, FORMER
[01:41:33] SPOKESPERSON FOR THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE FROM
[01:41:35] WASHINGTON.
[01:41:38] >>> THE U.S. MID-TERMS WAS CLOSELY WATCHED BY MANY CANADIAN POLITICIANS TOO.
[01:41:42] LET'S BRING IN THE CBC'S OLIVIA STEFANOVICH TRACKING THE
[01:41:45] REACTION FOR US FROM OTTAWA.
[01:41:47] WHAT WILL THE RESULTS MEAN FOR
[01:41:51] CANADA'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE
[01:41:55] UNITED STATES WHICH IS QUITE TENSE. >> ACCORDING TO THE MINISTER
[01:41:58] RESPONSIBLE FOR CANADA U.S. TRADE, DOMINIC LeBLANC SAYS
[01:42:01] THIS WON'T CHANGE MUCH. HE MADE THE COMMENTS OUTSIDE THE
[01:42:03] LIBERAL CAUCUS MEETING BEFORE ATTENDING THAT MEETING THIS
[01:42:06] MORNING ON PARLIAMENT HILL.
[01:42:08] IF AND AND HE NOTED IN THAT W
[01:42:13] CONGRESS AND SENATE ELECTED IN THE U.S., THEY DON'T SIT UNTIL
[01:42:16] JANUARY. AND DONALD TRUMP REMAINS THE
[01:42:18] U.S. PRESIDENT, SO THIS IS THE
[01:42:21] PERSON AND THE ADMINISTRATION WHO CANADA WILL HAVE TO CONTINUE
[01:42:25] TO DEAL WITH ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO TRYING TO SECURE A NEW
[01:42:28] TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.
[01:42:30] HERE'S MOVE OF MORE OF WHATO
[01:42:36] SAY. >> OUR FOCUS HASN'T CHANGED.
[01:42:37] YESTERDAY WE WENT TO WORK ON
[01:42:42] ISSUES OF AFFORDABILITY, ON STRENGTHENING THE CANADIAN
[01:42:46] ECONOMY, DIVERSIFYING OUR
[01:42:47] TRADING RELATIONSHIPS.
[01:42:50] THAT WAS OUR FOCUS YESTERDAY AND WILL BE TODAY AND WILL BE THE
[01:42:53] FOCUS TOMORROW IN THE BUDGET.
[01:42:55] >> Reporter: LEBLANC POURING
[01:42:58] COLD WATER ON THE IDEA THAT THE
[01:43:00] U.S. MID-TERM RESULTS ARE GOING
[01:43:02] TO DRAMATICALLY CHANGE THE OUTCOME FOR A NEW TRADE
[01:43:06] AGREEMENT BETWEEN CANADA AND THE U.S. VERY SOON. WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE, OF
[01:43:09] COURSE, TO SEE HOW THE TALKS PROGRESS OVER THE COMING WEEKS.
[01:43:13] THE PRESIDENT AND THE PRIME MINISTER SAID THAT THESE TALKS
[01:43:16] WILL BE ESCALATING IN THE NEAR FUTURE AND THEY'RE HOPING THAT
[01:43:19] THEY WILL LAND A NEW TRADE DEAL, BUT THERE'S STILL A LOT OF
[01:43:23] UNKNOWNS AND LEBLANC POINTED OUT IT'S NOT CLEAR IF CANADA WILL
[01:43:26] HAVE MORE LEVERAGE NOW AND HE WOULD NOT COMMENT TO SAY THAT
[01:43:29] THIS CHANGES THE DYNAMIC IN THOSE TALKS EITHER.
[01:43:32] BUT PREMIERS ARE HOPING THAT
[01:43:34] THIS WILL RESULT IN A NEW
[01:43:39] FAVOURABLE TRADE DEAL FOR CANADA AND THE U.S.
[01:43:42] WE ARE HEARING REACTION FROM MANITOBA'S PREMIER WAB KINEW.
[01:43:45] HE WAS EXCITED ABOUT THE MID-TERMS RESULTS AND HOPES THIS
[01:43:49] WILL LEAD TO THE U.S. ENDING THE WAR IN IRAN AND ALSO STOPPING
[01:43:53] TARIFFS AGAINST CANADA.
[01:43:54] WE'RE ALSO HEARING FROM KINEW'S NEIGHBOUR, SASKATCHEWAN PREMIER
[01:43:58] SCOTT MOE WHO POSTED HIS OWN
[01:43:59] STATEMENT REMINDING THE PUBLIC THAT TARIFFS INCREASE COSTS ON
[01:44:03] BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER.
[01:44:06] MOE SAYS THAT THE MIDTERM RESULTS WERE DUE AT LEAST IN
[01:44:10] PART TO THE IMPACT OF HARMFUL
[01:44:13] TARIFF POLICIES AND SAYS THIS IS NOW AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CANADA TO
[01:44:16] RE-SET ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE U.S. AND RESTORE FREE AN FAIR
[01:44:19] TRADE BETWEEN OUR TWO COUNTRIES. HE SAYS THAT CANADA IS READY AND
[01:44:22] HE HOPES THE U.S. WILL BE AS WELL.
[01:44:24] FINALLY, WE HAVE REACTION FROM ONTARIO'S PREMIER DOUG FORD WHO
[01:44:28] SAID THAT HE WAS BASICALLY DOING CARTWHEELS AS HE SAW THE U.S.
[01:44:32] MID-TERM RESULTS ROLL IN LAST
[01:44:35] NIGHT BUT ALSO REMINDED THE PUBLIC THAT THE WAR WITH THE
[01:44:38] U.S. IS STILL ONGOING. >> Aarti: WHAT'S THE
[01:44:41] OPPOSITION ALSO SAYING ABOUT THE
[01:44:45] MID-TERM RESULTS AND HOW THEY MAY AFFECT CANADA?
[01:44:48] >> Reporter: CONSERVATIVE LEADER PIERRE POILIEVRE SPOKE TO REPORTERS THIS MORNING BEFORE
[01:44:52] HIS PARTY'S CAUCUS MEETING SAYING THAT THESE RESULTS
[01:44:55] ESSENTIALLY SHOW THAT MOST AMERICANS SIDE WITH CANADA IN
[01:44:58] THIS TRADE WAR WITH THE U.S. AND HE'S ALSO HOPING THAT THE
[01:45:02] FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL USE THIS
[01:45:04] MOMENTUM FROM THE RESULTS TO TRY
[01:45:06] TO SECURE A NEW TRADE DEAL WITH
[01:45:08] THE U.S., ONE THEY THAT'S GOR
[01:45:14] CANADA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. HERE'S POILIEVRE. >> Pierre Poilievre: WHAT THE
[01:45:17] MID-TERMS DID DO IS RECONFIRM WHAT I SAID ALL ALONG WHICH IS
[01:45:20] WE HAVE MASSIVE LEVERAGE IN THE FORM OF THE GOODWILL OF THE
[01:45:24] AMERICAN PEOPLE. I MEAN AMERICANS HATE THESE
[01:45:27] TARIFFS. EVERYWHERE I WENT IN THE STATES,
[01:45:29] DIDN'T MATTER IF IT WAS TEXAS OR
[01:45:31] DETROIT OR NEW YORK, DEMOCRATS,
[01:45:34] REPUBLICANS, WORKER OR BUSINESS, UNION OR MANAGEMENT, EVERYBODY
[01:45:37] HATES THE TARIFFS.
[01:45:39] WE HAVE TO USE THAT GOODWILL TO
[01:45:44] PRESSURE FOR TARIFF-FREE TRADE.
[01:45:47] >> Reporter: WE'LL SEE TO SEE
[01:45:49] IF IN THE NEW YEAR WHETHER THE
[01:45:53] DEMOCRATS WILL TRY TO BLOCK OR
[01:45:56] REVERSE TRUMP'S TARIFF POLICIES AT THIS TIME.
[01:45:58] ON JANUARY 1ST, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS PLANNING TO
[01:46:02] INCREASE TARIFFS AGAINST CANADA'S AUTOS FROM 25 TO 50%.
[01:46:05] >> Aarti: THANKS FOR THIS, OLIVIA. THAT'S THE CBC'S OLIVIA
[01:46:09] STEFANOVICH REPORTING FROM OTTAWA. >>> PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY
[01:46:13] AND FINANCE MINISTER FRANÇOIS-PHILIPPE CHAMPAGNE WILL DELIVER THEIR GOVERNMENT'S
[01:46:16] SECOND BUDGET TOMORROW PROMISING A SERIES OF MEASURES THAT WILL
[01:46:19] TOUCH ON EVERYTHING FROM DEFENCE TO CULTURE.
[01:46:22] AND CBC WILL HAVE SPECIAL
[01:46:24] COVERAGE TOMORROW, OUR CHIEF
[01:46:27] POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT ROSEMARY BARTON KICKS IT OFF AT FOUR
[01:46:30] p.m. EASTERN WHEN FINANCE MINISTER CHAMPAGNE TABLES THE DOCUMENT.
[01:46:34] YOU CAN WATCH THAT ANYWHERE YOU STREAM CBC NEWS AND STICK AROUND
[01:46:38] ON CBC NEWS NETWORK FOR A SPECIAL EDITION OF "POWER &
[01:46:40] POLITICS" AT FIVE p.m. EASTERN.
[01:46:44] DAVID COCHRANE SPEAK TO
[01:46:49] CHAMPAGNE AND GET REACTION. >> WE'RE GAUGING REACTION FROM
[01:46:51] ORDINARY CANADIANS TO THE MID-TERMS AND WHAT THIS OUTCOME
[01:46:55] MEANS TO US HERE IN THIS COUNTRY. THE CBC'S ANGIE SETH HAS BEEN
[01:46:59] SPEAKING TO DUAL CANADIAN U.S. CITIZENLESS.
[01:47:01] I UNDERSTAND YOU SPOKE WITH A
[01:47:05] WOMAN YOU MET YESTERDAY FROM DEMS ABROAD. WHAT IS SHE TELLING YOU?
[01:47:09] >> Reporter: IT'S BEEN VERY VOCAL HERE IN THIS COUNTRY A
[01:47:13] CHAPTER THAT'S BEEN AROUND FOR QUITE SOME TIME.
[01:47:15] WE SPOKE WITH COLLEEN
[01:47:18] MAFFIE-NIXON WITH THE CHAPTER FOR SIX YEARS A YOUNG CANADIAN,
[01:47:21] DUAL CITIZEN I SHOULD SAY, FOLLOWING THE MID-TERMS VERY,
[01:47:24] VERY CLOSELY AND REELING AND FEELING THE EFFECTS FROM THE
[01:47:27] AMERICAN SIDE AND CANADIAN SIDE AS WELL.
[01:47:31] HAPPY WITH THE RESULTS WE SAW COME OUT OF THE MID-TERMS AS
[01:47:35] RESULTS CONTINUE TO COME IN. THERE'S A FEW STATES TO BE
[01:47:37] DECIDED AND SHE SAID THE RESPONSE WAS AMERICANS WERE
[01:47:40] LOOKING FOR CHANGE, BUT CANADIANS WERE ALSO NEEDING THAT CHANGE.
[01:47:43] AND THE BENEFIT NOW WE'RE GOING
[01:47:45] TO SEE ON BOTH SIDES.
[01:47:47] HERE'S MORE ON WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY. >> THEY'RE NOT HAPPY WITH HOW
[01:47:51] THINGS HAVE BEEN GOING. LIFE IS GETTING HARDER FOR
[01:47:53] EVERYONE IN AMERICA AND IT'S
[01:47:57] IMPACTING US HERE IN CANADA WHETHER WE'RE AMERICAN OR CANADIAN.
[01:48:00] HOPEFULLY THE CHANGES WILL START TO COME SOON OVER THE NEXT
[01:48:03] COUPLE OF YEARS ONCE THE DEMOCRATS ARE SWORN IN IN JANUARY.
[01:48:06] AND WE'LL SEE THAT START TO SHIFT.
[01:48:09] >> Reporter: SO IN TERMS OF THAT SHIFT, TALKING TO OTHER
[01:48:12] CANADIANS AS WELL AS THEY WERE
[01:48:15] GOING ABOUT THEIR DAY. THEY'RE WATCHING THE MID-TERMS
[01:48:18] AND THE SENT MET FROM WHEN WE SPOKE TO THEM PRIOR TO THE
[01:48:22] RESULTS THERE HAS TO BE CHANGE, THERE HAS TO BE A SHIFT.
[01:48:24] THERE NEEDS FOB A CANADA FIRST OR CONTINUED CANADA FIRST FOCUS
[01:48:28] HERE. WITH THE RESULTS THERE'S A SENSE
[01:48:30] OF OPTIMISM, OKAY, MAYBE NOW
[01:48:33] WE'LL SEE THINGS MOVE MORE IN OUR DIRECTION IT'S AS BEEN VERY,
[01:48:36] VERY DIFFICULT FOR CANADIANS ON A REGULAR BASIS AND BUSINESSES AS WELL.
[01:48:39] TAKE A LISTEN TO WHAT A COUPLE OF CANADIANS WE SPOKE TO HAD TO
[01:48:43] SAY ABOUT THE RESULTS.
[01:48:46] >> OPTIMISTIC BECAUSE ONCE
[01:48:48] THINGS ARE NORMALIZED, WE CAN
[01:48:51] LOOK FORWARD AND THINK FOR THE BRIGHTER SIDE.
[01:48:54] >> WITH THE CHANGE IN THE SEATS
[01:48:57] I'M NOT SURE IF THERE'S A STRONG INFLUENCE GOING FORWARD.
[01:49:00] HOPING FOR CHANGE AND BETTER OUTCOMES. >> Reporter: SO CONTINUING ON
[01:49:03] THE NARRATIVE OF CHANGE, HOPING THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME CHANGE,
[01:49:07] I WANT TO JIVE INTO SORT OF THE
[01:49:09] BUSINESS ASPECT, AARTI. THAT'S REALLY THAT CONVERSATION THAT WE'VE BEEN HEARING IN TERMS
[01:49:13] WATCH IT MEANS IN TERMS OF THE TRADE WAR. WHAT IT MEANS IN TERMS OF
[01:49:17] TARIFFS AND HOW BUSINESSES HAVE BEEN IMPACTED.
[01:49:19] WE'VE BEEN SPEAKING WITH THE CANADIAN FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS.
[01:49:22] THEY'VE BEEN WATCHING CLOSELY AND SAID ABOUT A THIRD OF THEIR
[01:49:26] MEMBERS, THOSE SMALL BUSINESSES, HAVE REALLY BEEN FEELING THE PINCH.
[01:49:30] SOME HAD TO PIVOT. SOME HAD TO SHUT DOWN. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S WELCOME
[01:49:34] NEWS TO THEM CERTAINLY AND
[01:49:37] THEY'RE HOPING THAT AGAIN THEY'RE SEEING IT THIS WITH A
[01:49:40] BIT OF OPTIMISM. THEY'RE CAUTIOUS IN TERMS OF WHAT DOES IT MEAN NOW MOVING
[01:49:44] FORWARD ESPECIALLY AROUND TARIFFS. TAKE A LISTEN HERE.
[01:49:47] >> WE'LL HAVE TO SEE IF, FOR
[01:49:49] EXAMPLE, SOME OF THE DECISIONS
[01:49:51] REGARDING TARIFFS ARE OVERTURNED.
[01:49:54] CERTAIN SECTIONS OF U.S. LAW,
[01:49:58] TAX LAW, WERE INVOLVED WHERE
[01:50:00] SORT OF TEMPORARY, IS IT GOING
[01:50:04] TO -- ARE SOME OF THE TARIFFS
[01:50:06] GOING TO BE REMOVED IN THE
[01:50:09] SHORT-TERM? THAT'S ONE INTERESTING,
[01:50:12] IMPORTANT THING TO WATCH. >> Reporter: AND WE'LL BE
[01:50:15] WATCHING THAT QUICKLY OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS AS THE REPUBLICANS WILL REMAIN IN THE
[01:50:19] HOUSE AND THE SENATE WITH A MAJORITY THERE. THAT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE UNTIL
[01:50:23] JANUARY. SO BUSINESSES WATCHING FOR THAT TO SEE WHETHER THAT'S GOING TO
[01:50:26] PIVOT AND JUST AS A SIDE NOTE IN
[01:50:28] THIS COUNTRY, AS YOU MENTIONED,
[01:50:31] AARTI, THE BUDGET WILL BE TABLED TOMORROW. SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, BUSINESS
[01:50:34] OWNERS IN GENERAL WATCHING CLOSELY TO SEE WHERE THE SUPPORT
[01:50:36] IS GOING TO BE COMING FROM THE
[01:50:39] GOVERNMENT FOR THESE BUSINESSES
[01:50:41] TWO YEARS INTO WHAT'S BEEN A ROLLER COASTER RIDE ON THE
[01:50:45] ECONOMIC FRONT.
[01:50:47] >> THE CBC'S ANGIE SETH IN TORONTO. DEMOCRATS MAY HAVE WON CONTROL
[01:50:51] OF CONGRESS SECURING 228 PLUS SEATS IN THE HOUSE AND ADDING
[01:50:54] SEVEN TO THE SENATE BUT TWO SENATE RACES REMAIN TOSS UPS.
[01:50:58] ALASKA AND MISSISSIPPI. VOTES IN THOSE RACES ARE STILL BEING COUNTED AND THE RESULTS
[01:51:02] MAY NOT BE FINALIZED FOR SOME TIME.
[01:51:06] DARREN McCAFFREY JOINS US NOW. INTERESTING RACES TO WATCH HERE.
[01:51:10] START FIRST WITH MISSISSIPPI. >> FASCINATING RACES.
[01:51:13] I DON'T THINK AARTI YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT MUCH ABOUT AMERICAN
[01:51:17] DIPLOMATICS TO KNOW THAT MISSISSIPPI HAS BEEN FOR A VERY
[01:51:20] LONG TIME A DEEP RED STATE.
[01:51:22] A SOLID REPUBLICAN SEAT.
[01:51:24] THIS IS A STATE THAT DONALD
[01:51:26] TRUMP WON BY SOME 20 POINTS ONLY
[01:51:29] TWO YEARS AGO.
[01:51:31] AND YET IT IS RAZOR THIN AT THE
[01:51:34] MOMENT BETWEEN SCOTT COLOM, THE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE THERE FOR THE
[01:51:38] SENATE SEAT IN MISSISSIPPI UP
[01:51:40] AGAINST SIN ANY CINDY HYDE .
[01:51:45] AT THIS HOUR, 43 VOTES BETWEEN
[01:51:49] THE TWO CANDIDATES. INCREDIBLE.
[01:51:50] WHEN PEOPLE SAY YOUR VOTE MATTERS, THIS IS AN ELECTION
[01:51:54] WHERE IT'S A REAL SIGN IT MATTERS.
[01:51:56] THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI HAS NOT ELECTED A DEMOCRAT TO THE U.S.
[01:52:00] SENATE SINCE 1982. NOW WE'VE HEARD FROM SCOTT COLOM
[01:52:04] IN THE LAST HOUR OR SO TALKING
[01:52:07] ABOUT HOW TIGHT THIS RACE IS. TALKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE
[01:52:10] COUNT CONTINUES.
[01:52:11] HAVE A LISTEN.
[01:52:15] >> LIKE THE PEOPLE THAT MIGHT BE SURPRISED, OUR CAMPAIGN, OUR VOLUNTEERS, THE PEOPLE IN
[01:52:19] MISSISSIPPI ARE INTO THE NOT SU.
[01:52:23] WE'RE PREPARED. WE HAD BEEN PLANNING FOR THIS SCENARIO FOR WEEKS.
[01:52:27] WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF VOLUNTEERS. [ Cheering ]
[01:52:30] WE HAVE LOCAL LAWYERS AND EACH
[01:52:35] COUNTY, WE WILL PROTECT THE PROCESS OF THIS ELECTION.
[01:52:38] WE WILL PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF
[01:52:40] THIS ELECTION. >> THE CURRENT INCUMBENT HEIDT
[01:52:44] SMITH WON IN A SPECIAL ELECTION IN 2018 AND RE-ELECTED IN 2020
[01:52:48] BUT STRUGGLING TO HOLD ON.
[01:52:49] SHE SAID LAST NIGHT TO HER
[01:52:52] SUPPORTERS IN THE EARLY HOURS
[01:52:56] THIS MORNING SHE WOULD CONTINUE TO BE A U.S. SENATOR.
[01:53:00] IF IT CONTINUES THIS CLOSE, THERE BE QUESTIONS ABOUT
[01:53:03] RE-COUNTS, CHALLENGES, BECAUSE IT'S REALLY TIGHT THERE.
[01:53:05] >> Aarti: LET'S NOW LOOK AT
[01:53:08] THE RACE IN ALASKA.
[01:53:10] ALSO HAS QUITE A RED HISTORY.
[01:53:12] >> YEAH, QUITE A RED HISTORY THOUGH THIS ONE WAS EXPECTED TO BE TIGHT.
[01:53:15] IT'S ONE OF THE STATES THAT THE DEMOCRATS THOUGHT THEY MAY
[01:53:19] WELWYN AND THAT'S STILL A POSSIBILITY.
[01:53:21] THIS IS BETWEEN MARY PELTOLA
[01:53:26] AGAINST THE INCUMBENT DAN SULLIVAN. AGAIN IT'S VERY, VERY CLOSE.
[01:53:30] BUT ONLY 74% OF THE VOTE COUNTED.
[01:53:33] THE THOUGH IT SEEMS TO BE TRENDING IN PELTOLA'S DIRECTION.
[01:53:37] IF AGAIN, A REALLY INTERESTING E
[01:53:41] AND A STATE THAT HAS BEEN
[01:53:45] REPUBLICAN BUT THE FOCUS ON THE COST OF LIVING IS ABSOLUTELY
[01:53:48] CRUCIAL IN ALL OF THIS.
[01:53:50] WE HEARD FROM PELTOLA AGAIN OVERNIGHT TALKING JUST ABOUT HOW
[01:53:54] CLOSE THIS RACE IS.
[01:53:58] >> IT WON'T BE HOURS. IT WON'T BE DAYS. IT WILL BE WEEKS.
[01:54:01] IT WILL BE WEEKS. WE KNOW. THIS WE KNOW THIS.
[01:54:05] THIS IS NORMAL. THIS IS ALASKA NORMAL. IT'S GOING TO TAKE A LONG TIME
[01:54:08] TO MAKE SURE WE'RE COUNTING
[01:54:10] EVERY VOTE FROM EVERY FAR FLUNG
[01:54:14] HINTERLAND COMMUNITY, FROM EVERY
[01:54:17] TINY OUTPOST, FROM ALL OF OUR SERVICE MEMBERS SERVING
[01:54:20] OVERSEAS, OUR YOUNG PEOPLE GOING TO COLLEGES, WE'RE GOING TO
[01:54:24] COUNT THEIR VOTES. THEIR VOTES WILL BE COUNTED.
[01:54:27] THEY WILL BE HEARD.
[01:54:29] >> Reporter: HE'S NOT GOING TO CHALLENGE THE VOTE IN THE STATE.
[01:54:33] THERE'S BEEN CONTROVERSY AROUND
[01:54:33] THE USE OF ANOTHER CANDIDATE DAN
[01:54:37] J SULLIVAN IS THE REPUBLICAN
[01:54:41] CANDIDATE, DAN S SULLIVAN WHO HAS NOT GAIN THAT HAD MANY VOTES.
[01:54:44] I'M NOT SURE HE WOULD HAVE CHANGED THE DIRECTION. IT'S BEEN CONTROVERSIAL IN THAT
[01:54:48] ELECTION. THERE HE IS ON SCREEN.
[01:54:50] IF PELTOLA WINS, SHE WILL BECOME
[01:54:53] ONLY THE SECOND FEMALE
[01:54:55] INDIGENOUS SENATOR IN AMERICAN
[01:54:59] HISTORY JOINING PENNY FLANAGAN WOULD WON IN MINNESOTA.
[01:55:03] >> THAT'S THE CBC'S DARREN McCAFFREY.
[01:55:06] JD VANCE IS ADMITTING DEFEAT TODAY IN THE MID-TERMS.
[01:55:09] VANCE IS BLAMING YESTERDAY'S DISMAL RESULTS FOR REPUBLICANS
[01:55:13] ON THE WAR WITH IRAN. ON SOCIAL MEDIA, HE POSTED THIS BLUNT MESSAGE.
[01:55:17] THE REASON WE LOST IS THE WAR. THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF SAID SO
[01:55:20] LAST NIGHT. IF YOU'D LIKE TO ARGUE IT WAS
[01:55:23] WORTH IT, THAT LOSING THE SENATE
[01:55:26] FOR SIX YEARS WAS WORTH IT. DO IT.
[01:55:30] ARGUE IT WAS A WORTHWHILE COST TO PLAY.
[01:55:33] EVERYONE KNOWS WHY WE LOST AND ANY HONEST CONVERSATION ABOUT
[01:55:36] WHERE WE GO FROM HERE MUST START THERE.
[01:55:39] I REMAIN HOPEFUL ABOUT OUR COUNTRY, TO THE PEOPLE PISSEDDED
[01:55:43] OFF AND WANT TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO, YOU'RE RIGHT.
[01:55:46] YOU DID TELL US SO.
[01:55:48] TAKE THAT ENERGY INTO ELECTING REPUBLICANS WHO SHARE YOUR WORLD VIEW.
[01:55:52] TO THE PEOPLE PISSED AT THE RESULTS, YOU SHOULD BE.
[01:55:55] >>> OKAY, SO WE TALKED ABOUT HISTORY BEING MADE IN A NUMBER
[01:55:59] OF DIFFERENT RACES. IT WAS A HISTORIC WIN IN
[01:56:03] GEORGIA.
[01:56:04] >> GEORGIA, THIS WIN IS FOR ALL
[01:56:13] OF US. >> HER ELECTION WILL END MORE
[01:56:15] THAN TWO DECADES OF REPUBLICAN
[01:56:18] CONTROL OF THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE.
[01:56:20] >>> HERE NOW A LOOK AT THAT RACE
[01:56:23] AN HOW IT SHAPED UP WITH KESHIA
[01:56:26] LANCE BOTTOMS COMING OUT ON TOP AS WELL.
[01:56:28] WE WANT TO CONTINUE OUR COVERAGE
[01:56:31] HERE OF THE U.S. MID-TERM ELECTION RESULTS. THERE'S A LOOK AT CAPITOL HILL
[01:56:35] WHERE THE BALANCE OF POWER HAS SHIFTED. MORE COVERAGE COMING UP FOR YOU
[01:56:38] RIGHT HERE ON CBC NEWS NETWORK.
[02:00:21] [ ♪♪ ] WAR IN IRAN. >> Aarti: HELLO, WELCOME
[02:00:24] INSIDE THE CBC NEWSROOM. I'M AARTI POLE. AMERICANS VOTED FOR CHANGE IN A
[02:00:28] BIG WAY IN YESTERDAY'S MID-TERM ELECTIONS.
[02:00:30] AN HISTORIC BLUE WAVE LANDED DEMOCRATS CONTROL OF BOTH THE
[02:00:33] HOUSE AND THE SENATE DELIVERING
[02:00:35] A STUNNING REBUKE OF U.S.
[02:00:40] PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. SENATE SEATS IN DEEP RED STATES
[02:00:41] LIKE TEXAS, KANSAS AND SOUTH
[02:00:44] CAROLINA FLIPPED. DEMOCRATS WILL TAKE CONTROL OF CONGRESS IN JANUARY.
[02:00:47] THEY ONLY REQUIRED THREE SEATS TO WIN THE HOUSE, SO FAR, THEY
[02:00:51] HAVE PICKED UP MORE THAN TWO DOZEN.
[02:00:53] BUT IT COULD TAKE DAYS UNTIL ALL THE RACES ARE DECIDED.
[02:00:56] BUT IT'S THE SENATE WHERE THE DEMOCRATS MADE A LANDMARK
[02:01:00] BREAKTHROUGH WINNING SEVEN SEATS FROM THE REPUBLICANS, ALL TOSS
[02:01:03] UPS GOING THEIR WAY AND DEMOCRATS COULD WIN MORE
[02:01:07] BUILDING ON THAT SENATE MAJORITY.
[02:01:10] WE HAVE EXTENSIVE MID-TERM COVERAGE FOR YOU THIS HOUR WITH
[02:01:14] OUR CBC NEWS TEAM, MARK CARCASOLE IS IN WASHINGTON
[02:01:17] LOOKING AT THE BIG PICTURE AND HOW THIS IS PLAYING OUT IN THE
[02:01:20] U.S. CAPITOL ONE DAY AFTER THE ELECTION.
[02:01:22] AND OLIVIA STEFANOVICH IS IN OUR
[02:01:25] NATION'S CAPITAL, SHE WILL HAVE FRESH POLITICAL REACTION FROM
[02:01:29] CANADIAN LEADERS INCLUDING WHAT THIS MIGHT MEAN FOR TRADE TALKS
[02:01:31] WITH THE U.S. GOING FORWARD.
[02:01:34] >>> LET'S BEGIN IN WASHINGTON WITH PARK, HE'S JOINING US LIVE
[02:01:37] FROM CAPITOL HILL. MARK, MEMBERS OF BOTH PARTIES
[02:01:40] ARE OFFERING THEIR THOUGHTS ON THE RESULTS TODAY AND WHAT HAPPENED.
[02:01:43] WHO ARE WE HEARING FROM?
[02:01:45] >> Reporter: WE'VE HEARD FROM
[02:01:48] THE HIGHER RANKING MEMBERS IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE FROM THE
[02:01:50] DEMOCRAT PARTY, THE HIGHEST
[02:01:52] RANKING MEMBERS ALREADY, AS WELL
[02:01:55] AS VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE WHO OFFERED THOUGHTS.
[02:01:57] STARTING WITH THE DEMOCRATS, THE REACTION OBVIOUSLY A VERY HAPPY
[02:02:01] DAY FOR MEMBERS OF THE
[02:02:04] DEMOCRATIC PARTY, CELEBRATING
[02:02:06] THE FACT THAT THEY'VE TAKEN CONTROL OF CONGRESS OVERALL.
[02:02:09] WHAT THAT MEANS IS SOMETHING THEY THEMSELVES ARE PARSING.
[02:02:12] SPEAKING ABOUT IT, BUT SPEAKING IN GENERAL TERMS.
[02:02:15] THE DEMOCRATS, YES, DO HAVE THE
[02:02:17] POWER TO PASS LEGISLATION NOW, BUT ANYTHING THAT THEY PASS
[02:02:20] WOULD HAVE TO RECEIVE PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL. WE'LL GET INTO A LITTLE BIT MORE
[02:02:24] ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS IN THE MINUTES TO COME.
[02:02:26] BUT THEY ALSO NOW HAVE THE POWER
[02:02:28] TO BLOCK ANY REPUBLICAN
[02:02:32] LEGISLATION WHICH ALLOWS THEM TO STALL, PUT A STALEMATE INTO
[02:02:35] CONGRESS AND EFFECTIVELY STOP
[02:02:37] FOR TWO YEARS FOR THE MOST PART THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S AGENDA.
[02:02:40] NOT ENTIRELY, BUT IN WIDE PART.
[02:02:44] BUT WHERE THEY HAVE GREAT POWER
[02:02:45] RIGHT NOW IS IN THEIR ABILITY TO
[02:02:48] LAUNCH INVESTIGATIONS AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP, AGAINST SOME OF
[02:02:51] HIS COLLEAGUES, ASSOCIATES,
[02:02:53] SUBJECT THEM TO CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT.
[02:02:55] THE TRUMP FAMILY LIKE HIS SONS,
[02:02:58] DON JUNIOR, ERIC AS WELL AS HIS
[02:03:00] SON-IN-LAW JARED KUSHNER LIKELY TO FACE INCREASED SCRUTINY OVER
[02:03:04] THEIR BUSINESS AND POLITIC ALTICE.
[02:03:07] ROBERT GARCIA EXPECTED TO BE THE CHEMOTHERAPY OF THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE MADE IT
[02:03:11] CLEAR LAST NIGHT THAT THAT'S LIKELY WHERE THINGS ARE GOING.
[02:03:13] TWO WORDS, ALL CAPITAL, HE WROTE
[02:03:15] TO THE PRESIDENT, LAWYER UP.
[02:03:19] EARLIER TODAY, WE HEARD FROM
[02:03:22] CHUCK SCHUMER WHO SAYS YES THEY'LL BE TAKING THE POWERS OF
[02:03:25] INVESTIGATION VERY SERIOUSLY IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
[02:03:29] >> MAKE NO MISTAKE.
[02:03:32] WHENEVER TRUMP DEFIES THE WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OR THE
[02:03:36] LAW, WE WILL LAUNCH INVESTIGATIONS, TAKE HIM TO
[02:03:38] COURT AND ENTANGLE HIM IN
[02:03:40] LEGISLATIVE RAZOR WIRE.
[02:03:42] THE DAYS OF TRUMP'S SUBCAN'T
[02:03:46] SENATE ARE OVER. >> IN THAT PRESS CONFERENCE,
[02:03:49] SENATOR SCHUMER LAID OUT THREE
[02:03:52] PRIORITIES FOR THE DEMOCRATS NOW THAT THEY CONTROL THE SENATE. ONE BRINGING DOWN THE COST OF
[02:03:56] LIVING, TWO, CLEANING UP CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT. THAT'S WHERE THAT INVESTIGATIVE
[02:04:00] POWER WILL COME IN, AND, THREE,
[02:04:03] CHECKING TRUMP'S CHAOS AT HOME AND ABROAD AS HE PUT IT.
[02:04:06] WHEN IT COMES TO THE LEGISLATIVE POWERS THAT THEY HAVE, AGAIN,
[02:04:09] DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF THOSE THREE PRIORITIES THEY CAN ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISH.
[02:04:13] OF KEEP IN MIND THE PRESIDENT ALSO HAS EXECUTIVE POWER.
[02:04:16] HE CAN GET AROUND CONGRESS WITH
[02:04:20] ORDS, IT'S SOMETHING HE'S DONE
[02:04:23] MULTIPLE TIMES INCLUDING THE TARIFFS THAT AFFECTED OUR AND
[02:04:26] THE AMERICAN ECONOMIES SO MUCH
[02:04:28] OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
[02:04:30] >> Aarti: WHAT HAS THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT HAD
[02:04:34] SO SAY SO FAR? >> Reporter: PRESIDENT TRUMP
[02:04:38] HAS NOT SAID ANYTHING TODAY.
[02:04:39] HE WAS VERY VOCAL ON SOCIAL
[02:04:42] MEDIA YESTERDAY RAGING AT THE RESULTS.
[02:04:44] HE CALLED INTO A COUPLE OF
[02:04:47] AMERICAN MEDIA COMPANIES AND SAID HE WOULD ACCEPT THE RESULTS
[02:04:50] BUT HE ALSO TALKED ABOUT HIS PLANS AND PLANS HE LAID OUT
[02:04:53] PREVIOUSLY TO USE HIS VETO POWER
[02:04:56] TO EFFECTIVELY KIBOSH ANYTHING
[02:04:59] THAT THE DEMOCRATS MANAGE TO GET THROUGH CONGRESS. THAT IS THAT PRESIDENTIAL
[02:05:02] APPROVAL I SPOKE OF EARLIER. SO IT'S CLEAR WHERE HE'S GOING
[02:05:06] WITH THIS. IN A POST ON TRUTH SOCIAL, HE
[02:05:08] POSTED A PHOTO OF A MAGA STYLE RED BASEBALL CAP.
[02:05:11] YOU BUT INSTEAD OF MAKE AMERICA
[02:05:14] GREAT AGAIN IT HAD IN CAPITAL
[02:05:16] LETTERS THE WORD VETO IN WHITE
[02:05:18] ON T THE PRESIDENT LAYING OUT WHERE HE STANDS HERE.
[02:05:22] VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE WITHIN THE LAST HOUR OR SO PUT A RATHER
[02:05:26] LENGTHY POST ON X WITH WHERE HE TALKED ABOUT THE DAY THAT WAS,
[02:05:29] HE WAS SPEAKING TO FRIENDS RUNNING THE NUMBERS AND HE KNEW
[02:05:33] IT WAS INTENTIONALLY GOING TO BE A BLOODBATH FOR THE REPUBLICANS
[02:05:36] IN THE MID-TERMS. HE SAYS, QUOTE, THE REASON WE
[02:05:40] LOST IS THE WAR. THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF SAID SO LAST NIGHT.
[02:05:43] IF YOU'D LIKE TO ARGUE IT WAS WORTH IT, THAT LOSING THE SENATE
[02:05:47] FOR SIX YEARS WAS WORTH IT, DO SO.
[02:05:49] ARGUE THAT IT WAS A WORTHWHILE
[02:05:55] COST TO PAY. REPUBLICANS TURNED OUT.
[02:05:58] HE'S NOT CONCERNED BY THE TURN OUT.
[02:06:00] THOSE WHO VOTE FORD TRUMP VANCE IN 2024 VOTED FOR DEMOCRATS THIS
[02:06:04] TIME AROUND AND THAT'S A SHIP
[02:06:07] THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS TO RIGHT THE NEXT TIME AROUND. >> THANK YOU FOR.
[02:06:10] THIS THAT'S THE CBC'S MARK CARCASOLE IN WASHINGTON.
[02:06:14] >>> THE U.S. MID-TERM ELECTION WAS CLOSELY WATCHED BY CANADIAN
[02:06:17] POLITICIANS TOO. THE CBC'S OLIVIA STEFANOVICH IS
[02:06:20] TRACKING THAT REACTION. SHE JOINS ME LIVE FROM OTTAWA.
[02:06:24] WHAT WILL THE RESULTS MEAN FOR CANADA'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNITED STATES?
[02:06:27] >> Reporter: WELL, THE MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR CANADA
[02:06:30] U.S. TRADE DOMINIC LeBLANC WHO
[02:06:32] WE'VE SEEN GO DOWN TO WASHINGTON
[02:06:35] DC SEVERAL TIMES TO TRY TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE U.S. ON A NEW
[02:06:38] TRADE DEAL BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES, HE SPOKE TO REPORTERS
[02:06:41] TODAY, AARTI, AND HE SAID THAT HE'S BASICALLY POURING COLD
[02:06:44] WATER ON THE IDEA THAT THE U.S.
[02:06:47] MID-TERM RESULTS, THE BLUE TSUNAMI WE SAW IN THE U.S. IS
[02:06:50] GOING TO RESULT IN AN IMMEDIATE
[02:06:52] OR AT LEAST IN THE NEAR FUTURE A
[02:06:55] DRAMATIC CHANGE FOR THIS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.
[02:06:59] LEBLANC POINTED OUT TO REPORTERS TODAY THAT THE NEW CONGRESS AND
[02:07:03] SENATE, THEY ONLY SIT IN JANUARY
[02:07:05] AND THAT DONALD TRUMP REMAINS THE U.S. PRESIDENT.
[02:07:08] SO THIS IS THE PERSON WHO CANADA WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE TO DEAL
[02:07:11] WITH WHEN IT COMES TO ANYTHING RELATED TO CANADA AND THE U.S.
[02:07:15] AND ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO
[02:07:18] TRADE NEGOTIATIONS MOVING FORWARD.
[02:07:21] HERE'S WHAT ELSE LEBLANC SAID. >> THE FOCUS HASN'T EXCHANGED.
[02:07:24] YESTERDAY WE WENT TO WORK ON ISSUES OF AFFORDABILITY FOR
[02:07:28] CANADIANS, ON BUILDING MAJOR PROJECTS, ON STRENGTHENING THE
[02:07:31] CANADIAN ECONOMY AND DIVERSIFYING OUR TRADING RELATIONSHIPS.
[02:07:35] THAT WAS OUR FOCUS YESTERDAY. THIS IS ACTUALLY OUR FOCUS TODAY.
[02:07:39] AND WILL BE THE FOCUS TOMORROW
[02:07:43] IN THE BUDGET. >> Reporter: HE WOULD NOT SAY
[02:07:46] WHETHER THE MID-TERM RESULTS WILL GIVE CANADA MORE LEVERAGE
[02:07:49] IN TRADE TALKS, BUT PREMIERS ARE
[02:07:52] HOPING THAT THEY WILL. ONTARIO PREMIER DOUG FORD JUST
[02:07:55] REACTED TO THE MID-TERM RESULTS
[02:07:58] AND HERE'S WHAT HE'S SAYING.
[02:08:02] >> Premier Doug Ford: I WAS
[02:08:04] DOING CARTWHEELS DOWN THE
[02:08:10] STREET.
[02:08:23] THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SPOKE. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SPOKE OP A COUPLE OF ISSUES. COST OF LIVING. COST OF GAS.
[02:08:27] THE WAR IN IRAN, BUT MOST IMPORTANT HIS TARIFFS.
[02:08:29] THAT'S ALL TIED IN THE COST OF LIVING. >> FORD POINTED OUT THE WAR WITH
[02:08:32] THE U.S. IS NOT OVER. THERE'S A LOT OF WORK TO DO ON
[02:08:36] BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER TO TRY TO PUSH THIS OVER THE FINISH
[02:08:40] LINE AND SECURE A FAVOURABLE TRADE DEAL FOR CANADA.
[02:08:43] AND FORD SAID THAT HE WILL BE DIRECTING HIS CABINET MINISTERS
[02:08:47] TO GO TO WASHINGTON DC TO CONNECT WITH NEW MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND THE SENATE AS SOON
[02:08:50] AS POSSIBLE. >> Aarti: WE CONTINUE TO WAIT
[02:08:54] TO SEE WHAT THE PRIME MINISTER HIMSELF WILL SAY IN REACTION TO THE RESULTS.
[02:08:58] BUT IN THE INTERIM LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT THE OPPOSITION LEADER
[02:09:01] PIERRE POILIEVRE HAD TO SAY SO FAR. WHAT DOES HE THINK THIS MIGHT
[02:09:04] CHANGE ABOUT THE U.S. CANADA RELATIONSHIP? >> Reporter: CONSERVATIVE
[02:09:07] LEADER PIERRE POILIEVRE IS URGING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO
[02:09:11] USE THESE RESULTS AS MOMENTUM IN
[02:09:14] THESE TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE U.S., TO LEAN IN AND TO TRY
[02:09:17] TO SECURE THE BEST POSSIBLE DEAL
[02:09:19] AT THIS MOMENT FOR THIS COUNTRY.
[02:09:22] HERE'S MORE FROM POILIEVRE.
[02:09:29] >> Pierre Poilievre: WHAT THE MID-TERMS DID DO IS RECONFIRM WHAT I SAID ALL ALONG WHICH IS WE HAVE MASSIVE LEVERAGE IN THE FORM OF THE GOODWILL OF THE
[02:09:33] AMERICAN PEOPLE. I MEAN AMERICANS HATE THESE
[02:09:36] TARIFFS.
[02:09:38] EVERYWHERE I WENT IN THE STATES,
[02:09:42] IT DIDN'T MATTER IF IT WAS TEXAS OR DETROIT OR NEW YORK, DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, WORKER
[02:09:45] OR BUSINESS, UNION OR MANAGEMENT, EVERYBODY HATES THE
[02:09:48] TARIFFS. WE HAVE TO USE THAT GOODWILL TO
[02:09:51] PRESSURE FOR TARIFF-FREE TRADE.
[02:09:57] >> Reporter: SO EVER SINCE THE
[02:10:01] TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BEGAN ITS TARIFF POLICY, THE CANADIAN SIDE
[02:10:03] HAS BEEN URGING THE AMERICANS
[02:10:05] AND TRYING TO CONVINCE THEM THAT
[02:10:08] THESE TARIFFS HURT PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER. AMERICANS, THEY DRIVE UP THE
[02:10:12] COST OF LIVING FOR PEOPLE IN THE U.S., AND CANADIANS CAN NOW
[02:10:16] POINT TO THE RESULTS AS PROOF
[02:10:17] THAT THE AMERICANS ARE UNHAPPY WITH THIS TRADE WAR.
[02:10:21] THE QUESTION NOW IS WHETHER THE
[02:10:23] U.S. PRESIDENT WILL BE LISTENINN
[02:10:25] AND ACTUALLY FOLLOW THROUGH AND ACTUALLY MAKE SOME CHANGES HERE
[02:10:29] FOR NOT ONLY THE CANADIAN SIDE,
[02:10:30] BUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
[02:10:33] >> Aarti: CBC'S OLIVIA
[02:10:35] STEFANOVICH IN OTTAWA.
[02:10:38] >>> OKAY, AND FROM OTTAWA WE DO WANT TO TAKE YOU NOW TO THE U.S.
[02:10:42] WHERE AS YOU CAN SEE THERE,
[02:10:45] HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADER HAKEEM
[02:10:48] JEFFRIES IS WAITING TO SPEAK FOLLOWING THE MONUMENTAL SWEEP
[02:10:51] THAT HAPPENED FOR THE DEMOCRATS IN THE U.S. MID-TERM ELECTIONS.
[02:10:55] SO LET'S LISTEN IN.
[02:10:59] >> 35 RACES TOO CLOSE TO CALL OR OUT STANDING.
[02:11:02] AM WE WON IN AT LEAST 21
[02:11:05] DISTRICTS THAT DONALD TRUMP WON BY DOUBLE DIGITS OR MORE.
[02:11:08] THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED IN THE
[02:11:10] 21st CENTURY.
[02:11:13] FURTHERMORE, THE D TRIPLE C INVESTED IN 35 RACE THAT IS
[02:11:16] FLIPPED FROM RED TO BLUE. SO FAR.
[02:11:18] PROVIDING THAT OUR STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS AND LASER FOCUSED
[02:11:22] DECISIONS ON WHERE TO EXPAND THE
[02:11:25] MAP FROM THE START OF THE CYCLE PAID OFF.
[02:11:28] THESE RESULTS ILLUSTRATE ACROSS THE BOARD HOW READY THE AMERICAN
[02:11:30] PEOPLE ARE FOR CHANGE.
[02:11:33] HOW TIRED THEY ARE OF THE BROKEN PROMISES FROM REPUBLICANS.
[02:11:37] VOTERS SENT A MESSAGE THAT THEY ARE EAGER FOR A CONGRESS THAT
[02:11:40] WILL, AGAIN, BE AN INDEPENDENT AND CO-EQUAL BRANCH OF
[02:11:44] GOVERNMENT. ASSERTING OUR OVERSIGHT AUTHORITY AND EXERCISING THE
[02:11:47] POWER OF THE PURSE TO PUT A
[02:11:50] MEANINGFUL CHECK ON THIS ADMINISTRATION. AND WHILE THE REBUKE AGAINST TWO
[02:11:54] YEARS OF REPUBLICAN RULE WAS
[02:11:56] CLEAR ACROSS THE ENTIRE COUNTRY, MAKE NO MISTAKE.
[02:12:00] WE WON THE MAJORITY DISTRICT BY
[02:12:03] DISTRICT BECAUSE OF OUR AMAZING CANDIDATES.
[02:12:06] OUR CANDIDATES WERE THE SECRET TO OUR SUCCESS AND AS I HAVE
[02:12:10] SAID OVER AND OVER, THEY ARE OUR
[02:12:13] SECRET SAUCE. WHILE THEY ALL SHARE A PASSION
[02:12:16] TO SERVE, THEY ARE ALL VERY UNIQUE.
[02:12:18] THERE WERE NO COOKIE CUTTER CANDIDATES. EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM IS
[02:12:22] DEEPLY CONNECTED TO THEIR
[02:12:24] DISTRICTS IN THEIR OWN WAY.
[02:12:26] WE HAD FIREFIGHTERS, MINISTERS,
[02:12:30] MAYORS, VETERANS, TEACHERS,
[02:12:34] FARMERS, PROSECUTORS, UNION LEADERS, LAW ENFORCEMENT,
[02:12:36] DOCTORS, JOURNALISTS, AND EVEN A
[02:12:38] GRAMMY AWARD WINNING MUSICIAN.
[02:12:41] THEY WERE ALL ABLE TO TRANSCEND
[02:12:45] PARTISAN POLITICS IN PART BECAUSE THEY ARE DEEPLY ROOTED
[02:12:47] IN THEIR COMMUNITIES, BUT ALSO
[02:12:50] BECAUSE THEY ARE DRIVEN BY A GENUINE DESIRE TO REPRESENT
[02:12:54] EVERY PERSON IN THEIR DISTRICT.
[02:12:57] DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, AND INDEPENDENTS.
[02:13:00] THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THE JOB TITLE IS REPRESENTATIVE, NOT
[02:13:04] RUBBER STAMP.
[02:13:05] IN THE 120th CONGRESS UNDER
[02:13:08] THE LEADERSHIP OF SPEAKER HAKEEM
[02:13:11] JEFFRIES, WE'RE GOING TO WASTE
[02:13:12] NO TIME IN GETTING TO WORK AND
[02:13:16] PURSUING AN AFFORDABILITY AGENDA, ROOTING OUT THE CULTURE
[02:13:18] OF CORRUPTION THAT HAS FESTERED IN WASHINGTON DC THE PAST TWO YEARS.
[02:13:22] I AM SO HONOURED TO BE HERE WITH THIS INCREDIBLE TEAM OF PEOPLE
[02:13:26] WHO HAVE LED THE WAY, BUT NO ONE
[02:13:29] MORE SO THAN OUR LEADER THE
[02:13:32] FUTURE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE,
[02:13:33] HAKEEM JEFFRIES.
[02:13:38] >> GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. WHAT AN HONOUR AND PRIVILEGE TO
[02:13:41] BE HERE WITH ALL OF MY
[02:13:43] DISTINGUISHED COLLEAGUES IN
[02:13:45] LEADERSHIP RIGHT AFTER THIS
[02:13:48] STUNNING REBUKE OF MAGA EXTREMISM AND A GREAT NIGHT FOR
[02:13:52] THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
[02:13:54] I'M SO THANKFUL FOR SUSAN, HER
[02:13:58] EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP AND
[02:14:01] STEWARDSHIP AS OUR FIELD GENERAL
[02:14:06] FOR THE D TRIPLE C HAS BROUGHT US TO THIS MOMENT.
[02:14:09] ONE OF THE FIRST DECISIONS THAT I HAD TO MAKE AS THE NEWLY
[02:14:13] ELECTED HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADER
[02:14:16] WAS TO ASK SUSAN TO SERVE AS THE
[02:14:20] CHAIR OF THE D TRIPLE C.
[02:14:22] I'M GLAD THAT I ASKED AND I'M
[02:14:25] EVEN MORE THANKFUL THAT SHE ACCEPTED.
[02:14:28] SHE'S DONE AN EXTRAORDINARY JOB
[02:14:30] AND WE'RE DEEPLY APPRECIATIVE.
[02:14:34] MIKE JOHNSON WAS CORRECT.
[02:14:38] THE POLLS WERE WRONG.
[02:14:41] IT WASN'T SIMPLY A BLUE WAVE.
[02:14:43] IT WAS AN AMERICAN TSUNAMI.
[02:14:48] HOUSE DEMOCRATS HAVE DECISIVELY
[02:14:52] TAKEN BACK CONTROL OF THE CONGRESS.
[02:14:55] WE WILL WIN AT LEAST 255 SEATS
[02:15:03] IF NOT MORE ONCE EVERY VOTE HAS
[02:15:06] BEEN TALLIED.
[02:15:08] IT'S A HISTORIC MAJORITY IN THE
[02:15:11] 21st CENTURY. DEMOCRATS HAVE TAKEN BACK
[02:15:14] CONTROL OF THE SENATE, DEMOCRATS
[02:15:17] HAVE WON GOVERNOR SHIPS ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
[02:15:21] WE'VE FLIPPED LEGISLATIVE CHAMBERS IN THE NORTH, IN THE
[02:15:24] SOUTH, IN THE EAST, IN THE WEST,
[02:15:25] AND IN THE MIDWEST.
[02:15:28] IT WAS A GREAT VICTORY FOR THE
[02:15:31] AMERICAN PEOPLE.
[02:15:33] THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE CHOSEN
[02:15:37] THE ECONOMY OVER EXTREMISM.
[02:15:39] THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE CHOSEN
[02:15:42] HOPE OVER HATRED.
[02:15:44] THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE CHOSEN
[02:15:48] COMMON SENSE OVER CORRUPTION,
[02:15:52] CHAOS AND CRUELTY.
[02:15:55] THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE CHOSEN
[02:15:59] HOUSE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY
[02:16:01] WANT TO SEE A DRAMATIC CHANGE IN
[02:16:04] DIRECTION AND THAT'S EXACTLY
[02:16:06] WHAT HOUSE DEMOCRATS WILL
[02:16:09] DELIVER BEGINNING ON DAY ONE.
[02:16:12] WE'VE WE'VE PROMISED TO FIGHTN
[02:16:18] AFFORDABLE AMERICA AND THAT'S WHAT WE'LL DO.
[02:16:21] WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING ALL
[02:16:23] OF THESE EXTRAORDINARY PATRIOTIC
[02:16:25] CANDIDATES WHO FLIPPED SEATS ALL
[02:16:29] ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND WE LOOK
[02:16:31] FORWARD TO WELCOMING BACK OUR
[02:16:37] EXTRAORDINARY BATTLEGROUND INCUMBENTPS.
[02:16:38] EVERY SINGLE ONE OF WHOM
[02:16:43] PREVAILED UNLIKE ANYTHING WE'VE
[02:16:45] EVER REALLY SEEN IN A MID-TERM
[02:16:51] ELECTION IN MODERN AMERICAN
[02:16:53] HISTORY.
[02:16:56] WE'RE HUMBLED BY THE OUTCOME AND WE KNOW WE HAVE TO UNDERTAKE
[02:17:00] WITH THE SERIOUSNESS OF PURPOSE
[02:17:03] A RELENTLESS EFFORT TO MAKE LIFE
[02:17:07] MORE AFFORDABLE FOR EVERYDAY
[02:17:11] AMERICANS, FOR WORKING CLASS AMERICANS, FOR MIDDLE CLASS
[02:17:15] AMERICANS, AND FOR ALL THOSE WHO ASPIRE TO BE PART OF THE MIDDLE
[02:17:19] CLASS.
[02:17:20] WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT HARD FOR
[02:17:24] EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN, WHEREVER
[02:17:28] YOU MAY RESIDE. WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT HARD FOR
[02:17:32] SMALL TOWN AMERICA. WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT HARD FOR RURAL AMERICA.
[02:17:35] WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT HARD FOR URBAN AMERICA.
[02:17:39] WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT HARD FOR THE HEARTLAND OF AMERICA.
[02:17:41] WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT HARD FOR
[02:17:43] BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES ALL THROUGHOUT AMERICA.
[02:17:46] THIS IS A VICTORY FOR THE
[02:17:48] AMERICAN PEOPLE AND WE SHOULD
[02:17:52] NEVER DOUBT THE RESILIENCE, THE
[02:17:57] CHARACTER, THE COURAGE AND THE
[02:17:59] CONVICTION OF THE AMERICAN
[02:18:02] PEOPLE TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
[02:18:08] IT'S NOW MY HONOUR TO YIELD TO
[02:18:11] ONE OF MY REALLY GOOD FRIENDS
[02:18:12] AND A CLASSMATE OF MINE --
[02:18:15] >> HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADER HAKEEM JEFFRIES SPEAKING ABOUT
[02:18:18] THE RESULTS OF THE U.S. MID-TERM ELECTIONS WHERE WE SAW, OF
[02:18:22] COURSE, DEMOCRATS RETAKE CONTROL OF CONGRESS.
[02:18:25] HE REITERATED SOME OF THE PRIORITIES THAT WE HAD HEARD
[02:18:28] EARLIER FROM CHUCK SCHUMER TALKING ABOUT HOW THE PRIORITIES
[02:18:31] FOR THE DEMOCRATS GOING FORWARD
[02:18:33] WILL FOCUS ON COST OF LIVING AS
[02:18:38] WELL AS ACCOUNTABILITY AND ALSO ENDING CONFLICTS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
[02:18:40] I WANT TO BRING IN THE CBC'S MARK CARCASOLE LISTENING IN TO
[02:18:44] HAKEEM JEFFRIES. YOU KNOW, SORT OF A BIT OF A
[02:18:47] VICTORY LAP FOR THE DEMOCRATS AS THEY ARE RELISHING IN THE
[02:18:51] VICTORY THAT THEY SAW THERE AND HE CALLED IT AN AMERICAN TSUNAMI
[02:18:54] WITH A HISTORIC MAJORITY.
[02:18:56] BUT ALSO REITERATED THE FIGHT
[02:18:59] FOR AN AFFORDABLE AMERICA.
[02:19:00] >> Reporter:
[02:19:03] >> Reporter: IT HAS TO BE A FIGHT. EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE CONTROL OF
[02:19:07] CONGRESS AS WE'VE BEEN TELLING YOU IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE DEMOCRATS CAN TURN AROUND
[02:19:11] TOMORROW AND START TO DRIVE THEIR AGENDA.
[02:19:14] IT'S GOING TO BE DIFFICULT FOR THEM. THEY HAVE TO -- IF THEY WANT TO
[02:19:17] GET ANYTHING PASSED THROUGH CONGRESS, FORM PARTNERSHIPS,
[02:19:21] KEEP IN MIND THAT FIRST OFF THEY DON'T TAKE CONTROL OF CONGRESS
[02:19:25] UNTIL JUNE. SO PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND
[02:19:29] THE REPUBLICS HAVE CONTROL OF CONGRESS FOR TWO MONTHS BEFORE THAT HAPPENS.
[02:19:32] ONCE THE DEMOCRATS DO TAKE CONTROL, THE PRESIDENT WILL HAVE
[02:19:36] THE ABILITY TO VETO ANY LEGISLATION THAT THEY PUT FORWARD.
[02:19:39] AT THE SAME TIME, THEY CAN BLOCK ANY REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION THAT GOES THROUGH.
[02:19:42] THAT IS ONE OF THE POWERS THEY HAVE.
[02:19:46] IF THEY WANT TO PASS THEIR OWN LEGISLATION, THE DEMOCRATS WILL
[02:19:48] HAVE TO FORM PARTNERSHIPS WITH SOME REPUBLICANS TO FORM A
[02:19:52] TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY TO GET AROUND THAT PRESIDENTIAL VETO. AND THAT DOESN'T EVEN ACCOUNT
[02:19:56] FOR THE FACT THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS EXECUTIVE POWER TO SIGN
[02:19:59] ORDERS TO GET AROUND CONGRESS AND DO WHAT HE PLEASES.
[02:20:03] BUT ONE POWER THAT THE DEMOCRATS
[02:20:06] WILL HAVE AND THEY WILL HAVE IT IMMEDIATELY ONCE THEY TAKE POWER
[02:20:09] IN EARLY JANUARY AND HAVE SAID
[02:20:12] AND HAKEEM JEFFRIES ALLUDED TO IT TOO, THEY'LL BE USING IS
[02:20:16] THEIR ABILITY TO INVESTIGATE AND HAVE CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT
[02:20:20] OVER PRESIDENT TRUMP, OVER REPUBLICANS, OVER SOME OF
[02:20:22] PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FAMILY TIES AND BUSINESS TIES.
[02:20:25] THEY WILL BE PUTTING INTENSE SCRUTINY ON SOME OF THOSE
[02:20:28] BUSINESS AND POLITIC ALTICE F
[02:20:35] HIS FAMILY, DON JUNIOR, ERIC, JARED KUSHNER.
[02:20:39] THE DAY AFTER THE HISTORIC SWEEP BY THE DEMOCRATS TO MOVE INTO
[02:20:43] THE CONTROL OF CONGRESS, HAKEEM
[02:20:48] JEFFRIES WILL SOON MAKE HISTORY. COME JANUARY, WHEN THE DEMOCRATS
[02:20:51] TAKE CONTROL OF CONGRESS, HE'S NOW THE HOUSE MINORITY LEADER,
[02:20:55] HE'LL BECOME THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE AND BE THE FIRST BLACK
[02:20:58] SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE IN U.S. HISTORY. SO, YES, VERY MUCH THE DEMOCRATS
[02:21:01] TAKING A VICTORY LAP TODAY.
[02:21:03] MAKING A LOT OF PROMISES, BUT
[02:21:06] HOW EASY IT'S GOING TO BE TO
[02:21:08] KEEP THE PROMISE OF AN AFFORDABLE AMERICA FOR ALL
[02:21:10] AMERICANS, WILLING SEE IN WE WIY
[02:21:15] AND THE TWO YEARS BEYOND THAT.
[02:21:17] >> THE CBC'S A MARK MARK CAN WASHINGTON.
[02:21:20] IT WAS A MONUMENTAL WIN FOR THE DEMOCRATS, ESPECIALLY IN STATES LIKE MICHIGAN.
[02:21:24] ABDUL EL-SAYED DEFEATED REPUBLICAN MIKE ROGERS IN A
[02:21:26] BITTER BATTLE FOR THE STATE'S OPEN SENATE SEAT.
[02:21:30] MAKING EL-SAYED THE FIRST ASYLUM SENATOR IN U.S. HISTORY.
[02:21:34] HIS WIN IS CONSIDERED A BREAKTHROUGH FOR THE PROGRESSIVE
[02:21:38] WING IN A CRUCIAL SWING STATE.
[02:21:41] NOW ROGERS WAS ENDORSED BY
[02:21:44] DONALD TRUMP AND HAD BACKED THE
[02:21:47] PRESIDENT'S TARIFF POLICY ANDÚJAR.
[02:21:50] HE BROKE WITH TRUMP ON THE CLOSING DAYS OF THE CAMPAIGN.
[02:21:54] WE REACHED THE DEPUTY
[02:21:59] EDITORIAL -- I WANT TO GET YOUR
[02:22:00] REACTION TO THE RESULTS.
[02:22:04] >> WELL, THEY WEREN'T ALL THAT DIFFERENT THAN I THAT YOU HAD
[02:22:07] THEY'D BE BUT A BIT MORE SUPPORT
[02:22:10] FOR ABDUL THAN I THOUGHT WE'D
[02:22:13] SEE AT THE END OF THE DAY. MICHIGAN WENT FAR LEFT ACROSS
[02:22:16] THE BOARD IN ALL OF ITS RACES.
[02:22:18] I THOUGHT THE ROGERS RACE MIGHT
[02:22:20] BE AN OUTLIER BECAUSE OF HOW
[02:22:27] CONTENTIOUS IT WAS.
[02:22:27] WE HAVE A BIG DELEGATION OF
[02:22:31] MICHIGAN FOLKS THAT ARE
[02:22:36] DEMOCRATS. >> WHAT ABOUT ABDUL EL-SAYED, WHAT DO WE MAKE OF HIS VICTORY
[02:22:40] IN.
[02:22:40] >> THIS BECAME A REFERENDUM ON
[02:22:45] DONALD TRUMP PARTLY BECAUSE HE ASKED TO BE ON THE BALLOT.
[02:22:49] ABDUL BROUGHT AN ENERGY THAT WAS VERY ANTI-RUMP AND REALLY I
[02:22:53] THINK MATCHED WHAT PEOPLE FELT ABOUT THIS MOMENT,
[02:22:56] AFFORDABILITY, HEALTH CARE, MONEY IN POLITICS.
[02:22:59] THAT WAS ABDUL'S MESSAGE AND THE
[02:23:02] THREE PRONGED APPROACH SEEMED TO
[02:23:04] STICK WITH PEOPLE.
[02:23:07] MIKE ROGERS' MESSAGE WAS MUDDLED
[02:23:10] ALONG WITH REPUBLICANS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AND HE
[02:23:12] WASN'T ABLE TO PRESENT A CLEAR
[02:23:15] MESSAGE OF WHAT REPUBLICANS STAND FOR TWO YEARS INTO TRUMP.
[02:23:17] >> Aarti: WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE TOP ISSUES, WE HAVE ON THIS
[02:23:21] SIDE OF THE BORDER TALKED TO A LOT OF PEOPLE IN MICHIGAN,
[02:23:24] SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE IT'S A BORDER STATE. AFFORDABILITY TOP OF MIND.
[02:23:27] BUT A LOT OF INDUSTRIES TOO IMPACTED BY THE TRADE WAR WITH
[02:23:31] CANADA AND WE SAW ROGERS LEAN
[02:23:33] INTO THAT AS WE DISCUSSED, LATER
[02:23:36] INTO THE CAMPAIGN AS WELL.
[02:23:37] HOW MUCH OF A ROLE DID THAT PLAY?
[02:23:41] >> I THINK THE TARIFFS WERE HUGE.
[02:23:44] I THINK TRADE WAS A BIG FACTOR.
[02:23:47] MAYBE NOT QUITE AS MUCH BECAUSE IT DOESN'T IMPACT EVERYONE IN
[02:23:51] THEIR DAILY BUYING AND SELLING. BUT THESE ISSUES WERE HUGE FOR
[02:23:55] MICHIGAN VOTERS AND I THINK THE THINGS THAT TRUMP DID, THE WAR
[02:23:57] IN IRAN, THE GAS PRICES, THE
[02:23:59] PRICE OF DIESEL, THESE THINGS DISPROPORTIONATELY ACTUALLY
[02:24:03] IMPACTED THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR HIM IN 2024.
[02:24:06] AND WE FELT THAT ACUTELY HERE
[02:24:10] BEING SO CLOSE TO CANADA WITH JUST THE FRAYEDED TENSION AND
[02:24:13] EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WENT ALONG WITH T IT WAS A HUGE ISSUE IN THIS CAMPAIGN.
[02:24:17] I HAVE NO DOUBT IT'S PART OF WHY
[02:24:19] ABDUL WON AND I KNOW THAT
[02:24:25] BIPARTISAN TROOPS WERE
[02:24:26] FRUSTRATED WITH THE ANGST THAT
[02:24:30] TRUMP CREATED WITH CANADA. >> YOU'VE BEEN INCREDIBLY BUS
[02:24:34] OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS.
[02:24:36] IT'S A CONTENTION RACE AND THE
[02:24:38] DEVELOPMENT OF HALEY STEVENS
[02:24:43] ENDORSING THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE HERE MIKE ROGERS.
[02:24:45] DID THAT HURT OR HELP HIM?
[02:24:49] >> I THINK HERE AT THE END OF THE DAY IT HELPED ABDUL.
[02:24:52] WE HEARD A LOT FROM DEMOCRATS IN THE HOURS FOLLOWING THAT THAT IT
[02:24:54] WAS GOING TO UNIFY THEIR PARTY
[02:24:58] AND CEMENT THEIR RESOLVE TO GET HIM ACROSS THE LINE AND I THINK
[02:25:01] THAT'S THE IMPACT IT HAD.
[02:25:03] 2 DIDN'T IT DIDN'T SEEM TO HE
[02:25:07] ROGERS AT ALL. VOTERS MIGHT HAVE BEEN FRUSTRATED WITH THE LAST MINUTE
[02:25:10] DRAMA OF THAT. IT WAS A SHOCKING WEEKEND. BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY,
[02:25:14] HELPED ABDUL.
[02:25:16] >> Aarti: LET'S FINALLY PUCK
[02:25:18] "ETALK" TALK
[02:25:21] ABOUT THE FUTURE FOR MICHIGAN.
[02:25:23] IT WAS A DEMOCRATIC SEAT BEFORE
[02:25:25] AND IT'S BEEN HELD ON TO. IS THERE A PATH FORWARD FOR
[02:25:29] REPUBLICANS IN THAT STATE NOW? >> I THINK THERE'S STILL A
[02:25:33] HEALTHY COALITION OF CONSERVATIVE VOTERS, OUR NUMBERS
[02:25:36] WEREN'T QUITE AS DRASTIC AS STRAIGHT BLUE STATES.
[02:25:39] I THINK MICHIGAN WILL STAY A PURPLE STATE. AT LEAST FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS,
[02:25:43] BUT I THINK THERE'S CERTAINLY A
[02:25:44] LOT OF MOMENTUM BEHIND WHERE THE
[02:25:48] DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS MOVING IN MICHIGAN. I THINK WE SAW THAT BERNIE
[02:25:52] SANDERS WON HERE 10 YEARS AGO
[02:25:54] BEATING HILLARY CLINTON.
[02:25:56] THERE'S AN APPETITE FOR
[02:26:04] PROGRESSIVISM. I THINK THAT'S WHAT REPUBLICANS Mr. STRUGGLED TO DO HERE IN
[02:26:07] THE PAST YEAR. >> KAITLYN, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
[02:26:11] KAITLYN BUS, THE DEPUTY
[02:26:14] EDITORIAL PAGE HE HAD ARE FOR .
[02:26:27] SUSAN COLLINS CONCEDED TO TROY JACKSON.
[02:26:30] >> THE NEXT TWO YEARS WILL BE ROUGH.
[02:26:34] THEY'RE GOING TO TRY TO IMPEACH TRUMP. I CAN'T BLAME THEM.
[02:26:37] I FEEL LIKE WE LOST TONIGHT BECAUSE OF HIM.
[02:26:41] >> I AM ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHED.
[02:26:43] THE SENATOR'S DONE A WONDERFUL JOB OF CAMPAIGNING ACROSS THE STATE.
[02:26:47] >> I THINK IT'S A VERY SAD DAY FOR THE STATE OF MAINE BECAUSE I
[02:26:51] THINK MAINORS REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GETTING.
[02:26:54] >> COLLINS SERVED AS THE SENATOR
[02:26:56] FOR MAINE SINCE 1997 AND WAS
[02:26:58] SEEKING HER 6th TERM IN THE ELECTION.
[02:27:01] SHE RAN UNOPPOSED ON THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY BALLOT AND
[02:27:04] MADE TARIFFS A MAJOR ISSUE IN HER CAMPAIGN. STAY WITH US.
[02:27:07] WE'LL HAVE MORE ON HOW THE MAINE
[02:27:10] RESULTS UNFOLDED AHEAD HERE ON
[02:27:13] CBC NEWS NETWORK.
[02:29:53] [ ♪♪ ]
[02:29:55] >> Aarti: WE CONTINUE OUR COVERAGE OF THE DEMOCRATS' SWEEP
[02:29:59] OF THE U.S. CONGRESS AND PERHAPS ONE OF THE BIGGEST UPSETS OF
[02:30:03] U.S. MID-TERMS WAS THE UNSEEDING
[02:30:05] OF SUSAN COLLINS IN MAINE, THE FAMOUSLY MODERATE REPUBLICAN
[02:30:09] SENATOR WAS ELECTED 30 YEARS AGO
[02:30:11] IN 1996.
[02:30:17] >> WE WENT ALL OVER THE STATE AND I'VE GOT TO TELL YOU, THE CROWDS WERE HUGE.
[02:30:19] THE RECEPTION WAS WARM. AND THE RESPONSE COULD NOT HAVE
[02:30:23] BEEN BETTER.
[02:30:27] >> Aarti: THAT SAID, THE
[02:30:29] RESPONSE AT THE BALLOT BOX WAS
[02:30:31] QUITE DIFFERENT. EVEN THOUGH THE FIVE TERM REPUBLICAN WORKED TO DISTANCE
[02:30:35] HERSELF FROM DONALD TRUMP THROUGHOUT HER CAMPAIGN, VOTING AGAINST HIS TARIFF POLICIES,
[02:30:38] MORE VOTERS IN MAINE RALLIED BEHIND DEMOCRAT TROY JACKSON.
[02:30:41] AND THE CBC'S MIKE CRAWLEY DIGS
[02:30:43] INTO WHAT CAUSED THIS STUNNING
[02:30:47] UPSET. >> IT'S INCREDIBLY RARE THAT A
[02:30:50] SENATOR WITH THE THE KIND OF TENURE THAT SUSAN COLLINS HAD IN
[02:30:54] WASHINGTON TO LOSE AN ELECTION.
[02:30:57] IN FACT IT'S ONLY HAPPENED THREE TIMES IN THE PAST 50 YEARS THAT
[02:31:00] A SENATOR WHO'S BEEN IN
[02:31:03] WASHINGTON FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS HAS LOST AN ELECTION.
[02:31:06] THE MAN WHO DEFEATED SUSAN
[02:31:08] COLLINS, THE DEMOCRAT,.
[02:31:12] >> Jacquie: DEMOCRATY
[02:31:17] JACKSON WAS A LONGER, A LO.
[02:31:25] HIS MESSAGE RESONATED WITH THE VOTERS OF MAINE.
[02:31:27] ONE THE KEY QUESTIONS CAME DOWN
[02:31:30] TO WERE VOTERS GOING TO REWARD SUSAN COLLINS FOR THE TIMES SHE
[02:31:34] STOOD UP TO DONALD TRUMP OR WERE
[02:31:37] THEY GOING TO PUNISH HER FOR THE
[02:31:40] TIMES SHE DIDN'T. IT SEEMS CLEAR THEY CHOSE THE LATTER.
[02:31:44] SUSAN COLLINS LOSING THIS SEAT
[02:31:45] IS JUST ONE OF WE'RE COUNTING AT
[02:31:51] THE MOMENT SEVEN REPUBLICAN HELD
[02:31:53] SENATE SEATS THAT SHIFTED TO THE DEMOCRATS.
[02:31:55] THE BULK OF THOSE WERE IN RED STATES.
[02:31:58] PLACES LIKE KANSAS, TEXAS, AND,
[02:32:01] YOU KNOW, THERE'S A MESSAGE HERE
[02:32:04] FOR BOTH DONALD TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICANS AS WELL AS FOR THE DEMOCRATS.
[02:32:08] THE DEMOCRATS, YOU KNOW, POLITICALLY SPEAKING, IT SEEMS
[02:32:11] THAT A MESSAGE OF MODERATION, OF
[02:32:15] DEMOCRATS WHO WERE CONCERNED BY AFFORDABILITY ISSUES, THOSE
[02:32:18] FOLKS WERE ABLE TO WIN IN THESE
[02:32:21] RED STATES AND THAT MIGHT HAVE
[02:32:25] IMPLICATIONS FOR THE 2028 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN WHEN THE DEMOCRATS TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHO
[02:32:28] THEY WANT TO HAVE AS THE NOMINEE.
[02:32:31] FOR TRUMP AROUND THE REPUBLICANS, THERE WAS A CLEAR
[02:32:34] MESSAGE THAT THE VOTERS ARE DISSATISFIED WITH DONALD TRUMP'S
[02:32:38] PERFORMANCE OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS, BUT IT'S FAR FROM CLEAR THAT DONALD TRUMP GIVEN
[02:32:42] HIS PAST HISTORY IS GOING TO DRAW ANY SORT OF CONCLUSIONS
[02:32:44] FROM THIS.
[02:32:46] HE'S NOT BEEN KNOWN TO BE ONE
[02:32:49] WHO ACCEPTS LESSONS OR ACCEPTS
[02:32:52] CRITICISM WITH HUMILITY AND
[02:32:54] ACCEPTS BLAME FOR WHEN THINGS GO WRONG. SO YOU CAN EXPECT THAT WHAT'S
[02:32:58] GOING TO HAPPEN IS DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO CONTINUE ON WITH HIS
[02:33:02] AGENDA ON THINGS LIKE TARIFFS.
[02:33:05] THE DEMOCRATS HAVE SAID ONE OF
[02:33:07] THEIR TOP JOBS IN THE HOUSE IS
[02:33:10] GOING TO BE TO BRING IN SOME
[02:33:12] KIND OF LEGISLATION TO REPEAL
[02:33:15] THE TARIFFS ONCE THEY TAKE CONTROL IN JANUARY.
[02:33:17] HOW THAT IS GOING TO PLAY OUT
[02:33:19] REMAINS TO BE SEEN BECAUSE,
[02:33:21] REMEMBER, DONALD TRUMP HAS VETO
[02:33:24] POWER UNLESS THE DEMOCRATS CAN
[02:33:27] GET BILLS PASSED WITH A
[02:33:30] TWO-THIRDS SUPERMAJORITY. SO THE CANADIANS AND PEOPLE
[02:33:34] ELSEWHERE AROUND THE WORLD WHO ARE HOPING THAT TARIFFS MIGHT BE
[02:33:38] GONE THANKS TO A DEMOCRAT-HELD CONGRESS, THEY PROBABLY
[02:33:41] SHOULDN'T BE HOLDING THEIR BREATH ON THAT.
[02:33:44] MIKE CRAWLEY, CBC NEWS, BANGOR, MAINE.
[02:33:47] >> Aarti: MANY ATTRIBUTED THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S MID-TERMS SWEEP
[02:33:51] AS A REBUKE TO DONALD TRUMP'S POLICY.
[02:33:55] DID TRUMP'S WAR SWAY AMERICAN VOTERS AND DOES CANADA STAND A
[02:33:59] BETTER CHANCE AFTER THE RESULTS?
[02:34:00] FOR EARLY ANALYSIS, WE'VE JOINED
[02:34:04] INTERNATIONAL TRADE MINISTER AT
[02:34:13] REPORTING THAT IT WAS A HISTORIC DEMOCRAT SWEEP IN THE MID-TERMS
[02:34:16] LAST NIGHT. WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS MEANS FOR
[02:34:19] CANADA GOING FORWARD GIVEN THE
[02:34:20] CURRENT TRADE TENSIONS?
[02:34:24] TENSIONS. >> YEAH, THERE'S A LOT TO UNPACK.
[02:34:28] SOME IMMEDIATE POSITIVES AND QUESTIONS WE'LL BE ASKING
[02:34:31] OURSELVES OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. OBVIOUSLY IN THE SHORT-TERM,
[02:34:34] IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT THE NEW CONGRESS DOESN'T TAKE
[02:34:38] THEIR SEATS UNTIL JANUARY. SO IT'S THE PRESENT CONGRESS
[02:34:42] THAT IS STILL IN PLACE. OF COURSE NOTHING HAS CHANGED AT
[02:34:46] THE PRESIDENTIAL LEVEL. THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION IS NOT
[02:34:50] CHANGING. AND ALL OF THESE TARIFFS TO DATE
[02:34:53] HAVE BEEN IMPOSED BY EXECUTIVE POWERS BY THE TRUMP
[02:34:55] ADMINISTRATION.
[02:34:57] SO NOTHING'S GOING AWAY IMMEDIATELY.
[02:35:01] ON THE OTHER HAND, THERE'S
[02:35:03] ABSOLUTELY SOME NET POSITIVES
[02:35:06] HERE FOR CANADA.
[02:35:09] I THINK THE MID-TERMS SENT A VERY STRONG SIGNAL AROUND THINGS
[02:35:12] LIKE THE PRESIDENT'S TARIFF
[02:35:16] POLICY, ON AFFORDABILITY AND IN PARTICULAR WITH RESPECT TO
[02:35:20] CANADA IN SOME INSTANCES. SO I THINK WE'RE LIKELY TO SEE A
[02:35:22] LITTLE BIT OF A STEP BACK FROM THE UNITED STATES ADMINISTRATION
[02:35:26] AND HOPEFULLY THAT'S SOMETHING THAT ALLOWS CANADA AND THE
[02:35:29] UNITED STATES TO GET TO A GOOD DEAL IN THE COMING DAYS AND
[02:35:33] WEEKS. >> Aarti: WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE DISCUSSIONS THAT ARE
[02:35:36] CURRENTLY UNDERWAY, WE CERTAINLY HEARD FROM THE MINISTER
[02:35:39] RESPONSIBLE, DOMINIC LeBLANC, FOR CANADA U.S. TRADE AND HE
[02:35:43] SAYS THAT PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE, THAT TALKS HAVE BEEN
[02:35:46] PRODUCTIVE AS OF LATE.
[02:35:48] HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK THAT IS CONNECTED TO ANTICIPATING THIS
[02:35:52] SORT OF A RESULT IN THE U.S.?
[02:35:55] >> YEAH, I THINK QUITE A BIT.
[02:35:56] I THINK ULTIMATELY WE SAW A PUSH
[02:36:01] IN THE LAST WEEK OR TWO WEEKS
[02:36:05] BEFORE THE MID-TERM ELECTIONS BY THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION THAT ALL OF A SUDDEN, THERE WAS A LITTLE
[02:36:08] BIT MORE OPENNESS TO GET BACK TO
[02:36:11] THE TABLE AND THEY WERE MAKING STATEMENTS THAT THEY WERE
[02:36:15] LOOKING FOR A DEAL WITH CANADA.
[02:36:19] OBVIOUSLY JUST THOSE STATEMENTS
[02:36:20] ALONE WERE NOT ENOUGH TO MAKE
[02:36:24] AMERICANS CHANGE THEIR VIEWS AS
[02:36:27] WE SAW YESTERDAY, BUT HOPEFULLY
[02:36:29] KIND OF -- THOSE TALKS CONTINUE
[02:36:32] NOW THAT WE'VE SEEN KIND OF THIS
[02:36:34] BIG PUSHBACK BY THE U.S.
[02:36:37] ELECTORATE ON TARIFFS AND AFFORDABILITY WRIT LARGE.
[02:36:40] >> Aarti: IN TERMS OF BEYOND THE TARIFFS SO TO SPEAK, I'M
[02:36:43] WONDERING WHAT THIS MEANS FOR RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES
[02:36:46] ON A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT FRONTS,
[02:36:48] TOO, BECAUSE THERE HAS BEEN SOME FALL-OUT WITH THE TRUMP
[02:36:52] ADMINISTRATION IN SOME OTHER AREAS AND WE'VE SEEN, FOR
[02:36:55] EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, USING IT AS A JUSTIFICATION, THE FENTANYL
[02:36:59] CRISIS AND, YOU KNOW, HOW THOSE SORT OF SECURITY MEASURES ARE BEING VIEWED BY THE UNITED
[02:37:08] ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. THERE'S A KIND OF BROAD-BASED
[02:37:11] RE-CALLING BIRACIAL THAT'S
[02:37:17] RE-CALIBRATION THAT HAS TO HAPPEN. WE HAVE A LOT OF NEW DEMOCRATS
[02:37:21] THAT HAVE TAKEN OVER SEATS AS GOVERNORS IN DIFFERENT STATES
[02:37:23] THAT ARE NOT KNOWN ENTITIES TO
[02:37:28] CANADA.
[02:37:28] AND WILL NEED TO BE STUDIED BY
[02:37:33] OUR DIPLOMATS -- TO KIND OF
[02:37:38] REINFORCE THOSE TIES AT DIFFERENT LEVELS ACROSS THE BOARD.
[02:37:41] I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
[02:37:43] MAY BE HELPFUL TO THOSE BROADER
[02:37:46] CONVERSATIONS THAT YOU WERE
[02:37:48] DESCRIBING IS THE IDEA HERE THAT
[02:37:52] THERE'S GOING TO BE A RE-SET AS
[02:37:55] TO HOW MUCH REPUBLICANS ARE WILLING TO GO ALONG WITH THE
[02:37:59] U.S. ADMINISTRATION. I THINK THERE WAS A LOT OF FEAR
[02:38:03] BY U.S. REPUBLICANS, BY ELECTED
[02:38:06] MEMBERS, THAT THEY HAD TO DO
[02:38:08] WHAT THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION
[02:38:12] WANTED AND CLEARLY WE'VE SEEN NOW THAT THERE'S BEEN A KIND OF
[02:38:15] BROAD-BASED PUSHBACK AGAINST THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION'S POLICIES
[02:38:18] AND SO MAYBE THERE'S A BIT MORE
[02:38:21] WIGGLE ROOM EVEN WITHIN
[02:38:24] REPUBLICANS THAT DID KEEP THEIR
[02:38:28] SEATS OR OTHERS NOT UP FOR RE-ELECTION TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY.
[02:38:32] >> Aarti: THE MINISTER, DOMINIC LeBLANC DID NOT REALLY
[02:38:35] WANT TO ANSWER THE QUESTION, BUT
[02:38:44] THE DAY WE'VE SEEN EVEN THE NEW
[02:38:47] SPEAKER IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. JEFFERIES
[02:38:50] TALK ABOUT HOW IN THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS, HE WHAT HAPPENS TO
[02:38:53] PUT IN PLACE LEGISLATION
[02:38:56] LIMITING THE PRESIDENT'S POWERS
[02:38:59] ON TARIFFS. SO THOSE TYPES OF STATEMENTS, EVEN IF -- YOU KNOW, HE'S NOT
[02:39:03] SUCCESSFUL WITH THAT LEGISLATION, OR THE U.S.
[02:39:07] ADMINISTRATION VETOs THAT TYPE
[02:39:09] OF LEGISLATION, ULTIMATELY IT
[02:39:11] JUST MEANS THAT CANADA HAS
[02:39:14] ALLIES ON THE ISSUES THAT IT
[02:39:18] CARES ABOUT AND I THINK THAT'S HELPFUL AS WE GO FORWARD WITH NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE UNITED
[02:39:22] STATES. >> Aarti: FINALLY I WANTED TO
[02:39:24] ASK YOU, DOUG FORD, ONTARIO'S
[02:39:27] PREMIER, HE SAID ESSENTIALLY LISTEN, THIS TRADE WAR IS FAR
[02:39:30] FROM OVER. JUST BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN THIS
[02:39:33] RESULT IN THE U.S. MID-TERM ELECTIONS, SO WHAT DO YOU THINK
[02:39:36] WITH ARE THE NEXT STEPS.
[02:39:41] WHERE DOES CANADA GO? >> ULTIMATELY WE NEED A DEAL.
[02:39:44] NOT A DEAL AT ALL COSTS.
[02:39:46] NOT A BAD DEAL BUT THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY SECTORS OF THIS
[02:39:49] ECONOMY THAT HAVE BEEN KNOCKED
[02:39:51] DOWN AND BEEN DEVASTATED BY U.S.
[02:39:55] TARIFFS. THINKING PARTICULARLY OF STEEL. OBVIOUSLY WE'VE HEARD A LOT
[02:39:59] ABOUT WOOD PRODUCTS, HARDWOOD FLOORS TO KITCHEN CABINETS AND A
[02:40:03] LARGE NUMBER OF OTHER SECTORS, SOFTWOOD LUMBER, THAT HAVE
[02:40:06] REALLY SUFFERED AND ARE CONTINUING TO SEE WIDESPREAD
[02:40:10] LAYOFFS AND SO ULTIMATELY THERE
[02:40:12] IS A NEED TO GET BACK TO THE
[02:40:15] NEGOTIATING TABLE, THE AUTO INDUSTRY IN PARTICULAR ALSO
[02:40:18] NEEDS A DEAL FOR STABILITY AND
[02:40:20] FOR GROWTH AND SO WE NEED TO GET
[02:40:22] TO A SITUATION WHERE WE CAN HAVE A CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE WITH THE
[02:40:26] UNITED STATES AND DIAL THIS ALL BACK AND MOVE FORWARD FROM HERE.
[02:40:35] >> MY PLEASURE. >> Aarti: INTERNATIONAL TRADE PARTNER AT McMILLAN LLP
[02:40:39] WILLIAM PELLERIN.
[02:40:41] >>> WE HAVE BREAKING FLUS NE.
[02:40:44] ANOTHER PROJECTED WIN AND SEAT FLIP FOR THE DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE.
[02:40:47] THEY'RE NOW AT 229 SEATS, THE
[02:40:50] PICK-UP COMES IN MICHIGAN WITH
[02:40:53] CHRISTINA HINES DEFEATING MIKE BOUCHARD.
[02:40:55] THAT SEAT WAS UP FOR GRABS AFTER
[02:40:58] REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN JOHN
[02:41:10] TOGETHER TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AND INSTEAD OF DECIDING WHO'S GOING
[02:41:13] TO GET THE CREDIT.
[02:41:14] YOU HEARD THIS BEFORE.
[02:41:17] >> Aarti: WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HISTORY BEING MADE AND FOR
[02:41:21] THE FIRST TIME 94 KANSAS ELECTED
[02:41:34] A DEMOCRATIC SENATOR.
[02:41:36] THE RACE HAD INITIALLY BEEN
[02:41:39] EXPECTED TO BE SAFELY REPUBLICAN. IF.
[02:41:42] >>> SO WHILE DEMOCRATS WILL TAKE CONTROL OF BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS, VOTES ARE STILL BEING
[02:41:46] COUNTED AND TWO SENATE RACES
[02:41:49] REMAIN TOSS UPS, ALASKA AND MISSISSIPPI AND THOSE RESULTS
[02:41:53] MAY NOT BE FINALIZED FOR SOME
[02:41:59] TIME. WE BRING IN THE CBC'S DARREN McCAFFREY.
[02:42:01] TIGHTENING OF RACES IN MISSISSIPPI, QUITE A SHOCK. >> INDEED.
[02:42:05] ONE'S TOO EARLY TO CALL AND THE
[02:42:09] OTHER TOO CLOSE TO CALL. TOO CLOSE TO CALL IS MISSISSIPPI. INCREDIBLE.
[02:42:13] STEP BACK A SECOND HERE. MISSISSIPPI IS THE MOST RUBY RED
[02:42:16] OF RED STATES.
[02:42:17] DONALD TRUMP WON IT BY MORE THAN
[02:42:21] 20 PERCENTAGE POINTS TWO YEARS
[02:42:22] AGO AND YET LOOK AT THAT: WITH
[02:42:26] 96 VETS 96 VOTES COUNTED.
[02:42:29] SCOTT COLOM IS TIED WITH CINDY
[02:42:33] HYDE SMITH THE INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN IN MISSISSIPPI.
[02:42:36] THERE ARE AT THIS HOUR ONLY 43
[02:42:39] VOTES THAT SEPARATE THOSE TWO, REALLY QUITE INCREDIBLE.
[02:42:43] THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI HAS NOT
[02:42:45] ELECTED A DEMOCRAT TO THE U.S.
[02:42:47] SENATE SINCE 1982.
[02:42:50] NOW WE HEARD FROM SCOTT COLOM
[02:42:53] WITHIN THE LAST HOUR OR SO
[02:42:56] TALKING ABOUT HOW THIS RACE IS TIGHT, BUT ALSO TALKING ABOUT
[02:42:59] THE INTEGRITY OF THE ELECTION. HAVE A LISTEN IN.
[02:43:03] >> UNLIKE ALL THE PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY THAT MIGHT BE
[02:43:06] SURPRISED, OUR CAMPAIGN, OUR VOLUNTEERS, THE PEOPLE IN
[02:43:09] MISSISSIPPI ARE NOT SURPRISED.
[02:43:15] WE'RE PREPARED. WE HAD BEEN PLANNING FOR THIS SCENARIO FOR WEEKS. WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF VOLUNTEERS.
[02:43:17] [ Cheering ]
[02:43:23] WE HAVE LOCAL LAWYERS AND EACH
[02:43:24] COUNTY, WE WILL PROTECT THE PROCESS OF THIS ELECTION. WE WILL PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF
[02:43:28] THIS ELECTION.
[02:43:31] >> Reporter: WE HEARD FROM THE
[02:43:34] REPUBLICAN INCUMBENT CINDY HYDE
[02:43:36] SMITH OVERNIGHT SAYING THAT SHE
[02:43:38] WAS ASSURED THAT SHE WOULD
[02:43:41] CONTINUE AS THE U.S. SENATOR THOUGH ACKNOWLEDGING THE
[02:43:44] DEMOCRATS HAD GONE OUT AND WORKED. IT'S INTERESTING IN THIS RACE,
[02:43:48] THERE WAS AN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN THAT REALLY DOES SEEM
[02:43:50] TO HAVE SWITCHED LOTS OF VOTERS.
[02:43:54] THIS WILL BE WORRYING TO REPUBLICANS IF THEY CAN'T HOLD
[02:43:57] ON TO MISSISSIPPI. THOUGH IT'S VERY, VERY CLOSE AND
[02:43:59] IF IT'S THIS CLOSE, IF IT ENDS UP BEING THIS CLOSE WITH ONLY
[02:44:03] FOUR PERCENT OF VOTES LEFT TO GO, WE DON'T KNOW WHATEVER
[02:44:06] HAPPENS THAT THE RESULT MIGHT WELL BE CHALLENGED.
[02:44:10] THIS COULD DRAG ON FOR A LONG
[02:44:11] PERIOD OF TIME.
[02:44:14] EVERY VOTE REALLY DOES COUNT.
[02:44:17] >> Aarti: LET'S TALK ABOUT ALASKA. IT WAS EXPECTED TO BE A TIGHT RACE AND IT DELIVERED.
[02:44:21] >> Reporter: IT WAS EXPECTED TO BE TIGHT.
[02:44:24] THERE WAS AN EXPECTING UNLIKE IN MISSISSIPPI THAT THE DEMOCRATS
[02:44:26] HAD A CHANCE OF WINNING IN ALASKA.
[02:44:29] AS WE STAND RIGHT NOW, IF WE
[02:44:31] LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE, MARCH
[02:44:33] RAILROAD PELTOLA AND DAN SULLIVAN PRETTY MUCH NECK AND
[02:44:37] NECK. THIS WAS TOO EARLY TO CALL AND THE REASON I SAID THAT, ALASKA'S
[02:44:41] BIG STATE, ISN'T IT? AND IT VOTES QUITE LATE COMPARED
[02:44:45] TO THE REST OF THE COUNTRY. ONLY 74% OF THE VOTES THERE
[02:44:48] COUNTED.
[02:44:49] AGAIN, THE ISSUES AROUND ISSUESG
[02:44:53] CAME UP.
[02:44:54] WE HEARD FROM DAN J SULLIVAN WHO
[02:44:58] IS STANDING IN THIS ELECTION
[02:45:00] MAKING CLEAR THAT HE THOUGHT HE FOUGHT A GOOD CAMPAIGN AND
[02:45:04] DESERVED TO WIN.
[02:45:05] >> MY OPPONENT HAS RUN HER
[02:45:08] CAMPAIGN ON LITERALLY FROM THE
[02:45:11] BEGINNING PURPOSELY MISLEADING
[02:45:14] ALASKANS, CHEATING AND THEN LYING FOR THE LAST YEAR AND A
[02:45:16] HALF: THE CONTRAST BETWEEN OUR
[02:45:21] CAMPAIGN AND HER CAMPAIGN COULDN'T BE MORE CLEAR.
[02:45:25] OF WE KNOW IT. AND THE ALASKA PEOPLE KNOW IT AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE GOING TO
[02:45:29] WIN THIS RACE. >> Reporter: AARTI, IT'S
[02:45:32] INTERESTING HERE BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH IT'S CAN CLOSE AND LOTS
[02:45:35] OF FOLKS, THE TREND SEEMS TO BE GOING TOWARDS PELTOLA.
[02:45:39] IT'S SO CLOSE. IT'S DIFFICULT TO TELL.
[02:45:41] IF SHE DOES WIN, SHE WILL BE THE
[02:45:44] FIRST FEMALE INDIGENOUS SENATOR
[02:45:47] JOINING PEGGY FLANAGAN IN MINNESOTA.
[02:45:51] AGAIN PART OF THAT HISTORIES THAT WE'VE SEEN MADE IN MANY
[02:45:54] STATES ACROSS THE U.S. WITHIN THE LAST 24 HOURS.
[02:45:57] >> Aarti: DARREN THANK YOU FOR.
[02:45:59] THIS THE CBC'S DARREN
[02:46:03] McCAFFREY. >>> ALSO DEMOCRAT DEB HOLLAND IS
[02:46:05] MAKING HISTORY IN NEW MEXICO AS THE FIRST INDIGENOUS WOMAN
[02:46:09] ELECTED GOVERNOR OF A U.S. STATE. THE VICTORY COMES LESS THAN 880
[02:46:12] YEARS 80
[02:46:15] YEARS AFTER NATIVE AMERICANS WON THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
[02:46:19] WE'LL HAVE MORE ON THE RESULTS
[02:46:21] HERE ON CBC NEWS NETWORK.
[02:48:00] >> Aarti: WE CONTINUE TO TRACK REACTION TO A HISTORIC U.S. MID-TERM ELECTION.
[02:48:03] YOU'RE LOOKING LIVE AT THE CAPITOL AND SOON IT WILL BE
[02:48:05] UNDER THE CONTROL OF DEMOCRATS WHO HAVE SWEPT CONGRESS.
[02:48:09] THE RESULTS SEEN AS A MAJOR REBUKE OF PRESIDENT DONALD
[02:48:11] TRUMP. AND A BIG PART OF THE DEMOCRATS'
[02:48:15] SUCCESS LAST NIGHT CAME FROM FLIPPING LONG HELD REPUBLICAN
[02:48:19] STRONGHOLDS. IN IOWA, ROB SAND WAS ELECTED GOVERNOR.
[02:48:22] HE'S THE FIRST DEMOCRAT TO HOLD THAT OFFICE IN TWO DECADES.
[02:48:26] THE CBC'S WILLY LOWRY IS IN DES MOINES WITH THE DETAILS.
[02:48:30] >> Reporter: DEMOCRATS HERE IN
[02:48:32] IOWA WON IN CONVINCING FASHION
[02:48:35] FINDING SUCCESS ALL DOWN THE BALLOT.
[02:48:38] HISTORICALLY, IOWA IS A PURPLE STATE. BUT UNDER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
[02:48:41] IT HAS BEEN COMFORTABLY REPUBLICAN.
[02:48:44] THAT ALL CHANGED LAST NIGHT.
[02:48:46] AT THE GUBERNATORIAL LEVEL, ROB SAND, THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE,
[02:48:50] WON BY OVER 10 POINTS DEFEATING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE ZACH LANE
[02:48:54] AND THEN AT THE SENATE LEVEL,
[02:48:57] JOSH TUREK, THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE WON BY ABOUT FIVE
[02:49:01] POINTS OVER REPUBLICAN ASHLEY HINTON. THIS DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE
[02:49:04] RACE WAS THOUGHT TO BE NECK AND
[02:49:05] NECK AND TOO CLOSE TO CALL JUST
[02:49:09] ON MONDAY EVENING AND BOTH SAND
[02:49:11] AND TUREK PITCHED THEMSELVES AS
[02:49:15] MODERATE DEMOCRATS WILLING AND ABLE TO WORK WITH THEIR
[02:49:19] REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES AND IN FACT SAND IN HIS VICTORY SPEECH
[02:49:22] LAST NIGHT ACTUALLY THANKED
[02:49:25] REPUBLICANS AND INDEPENDENTS FOR PLEDGING THEIR SUPPORT IN HIM.
[02:49:28] LET'S TAKE A BRIEF LISTEN TO
[02:49:29] SOME OF WHAT HE HAD TO SAY.
[02:49:34] >> THANK YOU TO REPUBLICAN
[02:49:37] INDEPENDENT ENDORSERS FOR YOUR COURAGE AND LEADERSHIP
[02:49:41] GENUINELY. WE DO LIVE IN A BROKEN TWO
[02:49:45] CHOICE POLITICAL SYSTEM WHERE IT REQUIRES REAL LISTENING TO LEARN
[02:49:49] THAT A CANDIDATE THAT IS IN THE OTHER PARTY DOESN'T SEEM YOU AS
[02:49:53] THE ENEMY, YOU LISTENED. YOU KNEW THAT YOU WOULD RECEIVE
[02:49:56] SOME NEGATIVE REACTION.
[02:49:59] FOR ENDORSING ACROSS PARTY LINES
[02:50:01] BUT YOU KNEW THAT THE ANGRIEST
[02:50:03] ONES ARE THE LOUDEST AND YOU KNEW THAT HE WERE WILLING TO
[02:50:07] STAND PUBLICLY ON PRINCIPLE TO SUPPORT RETURNING OUR STATE TO
[02:50:11] BALANCED GOVERNMENT. >> Reporter: REALLY THE
[02:50:14] RESULTS HERE IN IOWA ARE REFLECTIVE OF THE BROADER TRENDS
[02:50:18] THAT WE SEE PLAYING OUT ACROSS THIS COUNTRY.
[02:50:22] ESSENTIALLY A REPUDIATION OF
[02:50:25] PRESIDENT TRUMP AND MANY OF HIS
[02:50:27] POLICIES, PARTICULARLY HERE IN IOWA, THE WAR IN IRAN THAT
[02:50:31] CAUSED THE PRICE OF OIL, THE PRICE OF GAS AND MOST
[02:50:34] IMPORTANTLY FOR IOWANS, THE
[02:50:36] PRICE OF DIESEL TO SKYROCKET.
[02:50:38] WILLY LOWRY, CBC NEWS, DES MOINES, IOWA.
[02:50:42] >> WE WANT TO TAKE TO YOU WASHINGTON NOW BECAUSE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE U.S.
[02:50:45] MID-TERM ELECTIONS WE'RE HEARING FROM DONALD TRUMP. HE'S SPEAKING FROM THE
[02:50:49] CONSTRUCTION SITES OF THE FUTURE BALLROOM.
[02:50:52] LET'S LISTEN IN TO HIS REMARKS.
[02:50:54] >> President Donald Trump:
[02:50:56] INTEREST RATES AND THEY TELL YOU WRONG UNFORTUNATELY.
[02:51:00] BUT I WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY. YOU'RE SPECIAL PEOPLE. I GREW UP WITH YOU.
[02:51:03] EVERY ONE OF YOU, I GREW UP WITH YOU MAYBE IN A DIFFERENT FORM,
[02:51:07] MAYBE GENETICALLY, MAYBE IT WAS
[02:51:09] YOUR FATHERS OR YOUR MOTHERS,
[02:51:11] BUT I GREW IN CONSTRUCTION SITES
[02:51:14] AND A LOT OF YOUR FAMILIES ARE DOING THIS FOR A LONG TIME AND
[02:51:18] YOU'RE THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS.
[02:51:20] I HEARD IN DOING THE BEAMS,
[02:51:23] THESE BEAMS ARE THE HEAVIEST EVER SOCIETY AND BO TOLD ME, WE
[02:51:27] WERE TALKING ABOUT IT, IF YOU
[02:51:29] LOOK AT THAT ROOF, THAT ROOF
[02:51:31] COULD HOLD HISTORIES.
[02:51:35] NORMALLY I SAY THIS FOR THE
[02:51:38] MEDIA, A HELICOPTER COULD TOUCH THAT ROOF WOULD COME THROUGH THE CEILING.
[02:51:41] YOU CAN PUT AS MANY HELICOPTERS AS YOU WANT ON THE ROOF T AS
[02:51:45] POWERFUL CEILING. IT'SES DRONE PROOF. IT'S MISSILE PROOF.
[02:51:48] IT BULLETPROOF. THE SIDES WALLS, THE GLASS IS
[02:51:52] BULLETPROOF. AND DRONE PROOF.
[02:51:56] NO DRONE CAN PIERCE IT.
[02:52:00] NO BULLET CAN PIERCE IT.
[02:52:02] YOU'LL SEE IT START TO COME NOW.
[02:52:04] IT'S THIS THICK AND YET IT'S PERFECT VISION. IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE YOU CAN DO THAT.
[02:52:08] MUCH SO IT'S HEAVY BULLETPROOF GLASS.
[02:52:12] IT'S ALSO DRONE PROOF AND SMALL MISSILE IF YOU CAN BELIEVE IT.
[02:52:15] SMALL MISSILE AND WHAT HAPPENS
[02:52:17] IS YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK AT T IT,
[02:52:21] YOU CAN SEE THROUGH IT LIKE I'M SEEING YOU RIGHT NOW.
[02:52:23] IT'S AMAZING.
[02:52:26] AMAZING STUFF THE TECHNOLOGY THEY HAVE TODAY.
[02:52:28] SO YOU HAVE A CEILING, DRONE
[02:52:31] PROOF, MISSILE PROOF,
[02:52:33] BULLETPROOF, THE FLOOR'S THICK
[02:52:35] AND ALL FROM UNDERNEATH IS
[02:52:38] TOTALLY DESIGNED IN SUCH A WAY -- IT'S THE -- THIS IS THE
[02:52:41] SAFEST PLACE IN WASHINGTON. WHEN WE'RE HAVING A DINNER, THIS
[02:52:44] WILL BE THE SAFEST PLACE.
[02:52:46] SO YOU CAN HAVE WORLD LEADERS, YOUR PRESIDENT SITTING HERE AND
[02:52:50] THEY'VE BEEN WANTING A MUCH
[02:52:52] BIGGER SPACE, A MUCH BETTER
[02:52:54] SPACE THAN THEY'VE HAD FOR 150 YEARS.
[02:52:57] PRESIDENTS, YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY, WHAT THEY NEVER INTENDED IS
[02:53:01] SOMETHING LIKE THIS. THIS IS GOING TO BE VERY SAFE. YOU CAN SIT HERE AND LET PEOPLE
[02:53:05] DO WHATEVER THEY WANT. NOTHING'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
[02:53:07] THIS IS THE MOST POWERFUL BUILDING, STRUCTURALLY, THE MOST
[02:53:11] POWERFUL BUILDING THEY SAY EVER BUILT. AND IT WAS DESIGNED THAT WAY.
[02:53:15] SO THE PRESIDENT CAN HAVE
[02:53:19] SAFETY. HAVING THE PRESIDENT OF CHINA, RUSSIA OR ANY PLACE ELSEWHERE
[02:53:23] THEY'RE HAVING DINNER, WHEN THEY
[02:53:25] HAVE 2,000 GUESTS, 2500 GUESTS,
[02:53:29] THEY'RE TOTALLY SAFE. IT'S IMPERVIOUS.
[02:53:33] I WANTED TO TELL YOU WHAT YOU'VE DONE IS AMAZING.
[02:53:36] WHAT YOU'RE BUILDING, WILL IT BE FINISHED PRETTY SOON, THE HARD
[02:53:40] PART IS DONE AND THE ONE THING
[02:53:43] THAT I'M MOST FASEVACUATED WITH
[02:53:45] IS WHAT THEY'VE DONE UNDERNEATH
[02:53:48] T .
[02:53:51] IT GOES DOWN FIVE STOREYS, THE
[02:53:54] MILITARY SAID SIR, WE'VE NEVER
[02:53:55] HAD HAD THIS OPPORTUNITY AT TE WHITE HOUSE.
[02:53:59] IT FRAGILE. GOING UNDERNEATH THE BUILDING WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE.
[02:54:03] WE DID EVERYTHING THEY WANTED AND IT'S SOMETHING -- THEY SAID
[02:54:06] THAT'S BEEN THEIR DREAM FOR 50 YEARS.
[02:54:08] IT'S BEEN THE DREAM OF
[02:54:11] PRESIDENTS FOR 150 YEARS. WE HAVE EVERYTHING AND ON TOP
[02:54:15] AND YOU'LL SEE IT, WE'RE BUILDING A -- IT'S A DRONE PORT.
[02:54:18] IT HOLDS AS MANY DRONES AS YOU WANT, CAN HOLD OVER A HUNDRED
[02:54:22] DRONES.
[02:54:24] AT THE MAXIMUM SIZE, WEIGHT IS NO PROBLEM.
[02:54:27] AND YOU SEE THAT WHEN YOU SEE THE POWER OF THE STRUCTURE.
[02:54:29] WHEN YOU LOOK AT STEEL. NORMALLY THAT WOULD BE LIGHT STEEL.
[02:54:32] YOU SEE IT A LOT WHEN THEY BUILD
[02:54:35] A PLANT, LIGHT STEEL, YOU CAN BARELY WALK ON IT.
[02:54:39] IT'S A RAIN ROOF. THIS IS A ROOF THAT'S A
[02:54:42] STRUCTURAL ROOF AND RARELY DONE
[02:54:44] BECAUSE THE SPAN IS SO LONG THAT
[02:54:48] IT'S VERY HARD TO DO STRUCTURALLY. WE ORDERED THE MARBLE FOR THE
[02:54:51] FLOOR. THE MARBLE IS REALLY MAGNIFICENT MARBLE.
[02:54:55] IT'S A CUT, IT'S A VEIN THAT
[02:54:56] PEOPLE HAVE BEEN AFTER FOR 50 YEARS.
[02:55:00] AND THE OWNER OF THE QUARRY
[02:55:04] DIDN'T WANT TO SELL IT.
[02:55:06] BUT HE LIKED ME AND HE ALSO WAS
[02:55:09] SO HONOURED TO BE DOING IT FOR THE COUNTRY.
[02:55:12] FOR THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE ME
[02:55:15] FLOOR YOU'LL SEE IT IS THE MOST
[02:55:19] BEAUTIFUL MARBLE YOU'LL EVER SEEN. THIS IS A VEIN THAT EVERYBODY
[02:55:21] WANTED TO ARREST LONG TIME AND I GOT IT AND I GOT IT FOR THE
[02:55:25] FLOOR OF THE BALLROOM AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
[02:55:28] AND IT'S GOING TO BE BEAUTIFUL. THE WALLS ARE GOING TO BE --
[02:55:32] YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF GLASS. A LOT OF YOU WILL BE LOOKING AT
[02:55:35] THE TREASURY BUILDING RIGHT THERE.
[02:55:36] YOU'LL BE LOOK AT THE FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND YOU'LL SEE
[02:55:40] IF YOU LOOK BACK THERE, YOU LOOK
[02:55:42] AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
[02:55:45] YOU HAVE NORTH AND SOUTH.
[02:55:47] AND THE KITSCH KITCHEN IS U.
[02:55:53] WE HAVE LARGE STAIRCASES FROM THE KITCHEN.
[02:55:55] IF I PUT THE KITCHEN ON TOP YOU
[02:56:00] WOULD LOSE THREE WALLS. THE KITCHEN TAKES ABOUT 30% OF THE FACE.
[02:56:03] IT'S ALL THE SPACE THAT YOU HAVE RIGHT UNDERNEATH.
[02:56:07] IT'S GOING TO BE TOP OF THE LINE.
[02:56:09] SO THERE'S NEVER BEEN ANYTHING
[02:56:15] LIKE. THIS IT'S FREE. FREE OF CHARGE.
[02:56:18] SOME GREAT PATRIOTS DEVOTED A LOT OF MONEY, GIVEN A LOT OF
[02:56:21] MONEY TO GET IT BUILT AND WE
[02:56:24] DIDN'T USE TAXPAYERS MONEY TO BUILD THE BALLROOM AND IT'S
[02:56:27] GOING TO BE -- WITH IT'S COMPLETED IT WILL BE THE BEST
[02:56:30] ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. YOU KNOW WHEN I WAS IN CHINA, WE
[02:56:34] WENT TO THE GREAT HALL, THAT'S
[02:56:36] CALLED THE GREAT HALL OF CHINA. AND IT'S -- IT'S INCREDIBLE.
[02:56:39] THIS IS ACTUALLY LARGER.
[02:56:41] THIS IS LARGER AND IT WILL BE
[02:56:44] THE MOST MAGNIFICENT. WHEN YOU SEE WHAT WE'RE DOING
[02:56:47] BETWEEN THE MARBLES AND THE BRONZES AND THE DIFFERENT THINGS, TOP OF THE LINE.
[02:56:51] GREAT ARCHITECTS.
[02:56:53] OUR TOP ARCHITECTS AND WE HAVE
[02:56:55] ANOTHER MAN THAT'S WORKED WITH
[02:56:58] ME FOR A LONG TIME TOGETHER AND
[02:57:01] WE -- WE NOT ONLY CLEANED UP WASHINGTON IN TERMS OF GRAFFITI
[02:57:05] AND OPENED UP THE STATUES AND
[02:57:08] THE FOUNTAINS AND FIXED EVERYTHING UP, MADE IT BEAUTIFUL
[02:57:12] AND EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT IT.
[02:57:14] BUT A MAN THAT HELPED US A LOT
[02:57:17] WITH CRIME BECAUSE CRIME IS ALMOST NON-EXISTENT NOW IN WASHINGTON.
[02:57:21] WE WENT FROM ONE OF THE MOST
[02:57:25] UNSAFE SUFFICE THE COUNTRY TO S
[02:57:32] UNSAFE CITIES IN THE COUNTRY. THANK YOU, SIR, THANK YOU.
[02:57:35] THANK YOU. SO WE HAVE A WHITE HOUSE WHERE
[02:57:39] PEOPLE CAN WALK TO WORK. WHEN I FIRST CAME IN TWO YEARS
[02:57:42] AGO, FIRST TERM WAS -- IT WAS DIFFERENT.
[02:57:44] IT WASN'T -- YOU DIN HAVE THE DE
[02:57:48] CRIME. IT DEVELOPED DURING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. MAYBE COVID, NOBODY KNOWS.
[02:57:51] IT WAS A KILLING FIELD. WASHINGTON DC.
[02:57:54] AND WE WORKED TOGETHER WITH
[02:57:56] EXPERTS AND WE BROUGHT IN THE
[02:57:59] NATIONAL GUARD WHO ARE FANTASTIC AN WE WORKED WITH WASHINGTON
[02:58:03] POLICE AND WE HAVE NOW ONE OF THE SAFEST CITIES ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
[02:58:06] BUT ANYWHERE CERTAINLY IN THE
[02:58:09] COUNTRY AND, AGAIN, THIS WAS A
[02:58:13] PLACE WHERE WHERE YOUNG MEN E
[02:58:23] TO SEE THE WHITE HOUSE AND CALL UP THE PARENTS, I'M SORRY, YOUR
[02:58:27] SON HAS BEEN KILLED AND THEY
[02:58:30] SEND THE SON HOME IN A CASKET.
[02:58:33] OR THE DAUGHTER IN A CASKET. THREE A WEEK.
[02:58:37] WE WERE LOSING THREE PEOPLE A WEEK.
[02:58:39] THREE MURDERS A WEEK BY SAVAGES AND MOVED THEM OUT.
[02:58:42] WE MOVED OVER 5,000 PEOPLE OUT OF WASHINGTON DC.
[02:58:45] THEY CAME IN THROUGH THE OPEN BORDERS.
[02:58:47] AND THEY CAME IN VICIOUSLY AND
[02:58:50] VIOLENTLY AND WE HAD A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH DEMOCRATS BECAUSE
[02:58:53] THEY WANTED TO PROTECT KILLERS.
[02:58:55] I MEAN I -- I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. BUT WHO DOES?
[02:58:59] WHO DOES? MAKES NO SENSE. WE GOT 'EM OUT OF HERE.
[02:59:02] MOVED 'EM BACK. SOME WERE SO VIOLENT, SOME
[02:59:05] KILLED MANY PEOPLE THAT WE
[02:59:07] DIDN'T WANT TO SEND THEM BACK TO THEIR COUNTRIES.
[02:59:11] WE HATE THE COST OF HAVING THEM
[02:59:16] IN JAIL FOR 50 YEARS.
[02:59:19] SPEAKING OF ABLE TO COME BACK,
[02:59:20] FOR THE LAST 17 MONTHS, ZERO
[02:59:24] ILLEGAL MY GRABS HAVE MIO
[02:59:29] YOUR COUNTRY. SOMETHING NOBODY THOUGHT WAS POSSIBLE.
[02:59:32] WE'RE HAPPY ABOUT THAT. WE'RE HAPPY ABOUT WASHINGTON DC.
[02:59:34] PEOPLE ARE COMING TO WASHINGTON.
[02:59:37] ALL THE RESTAURANTS WERE CLOSING BECAUSE OF CRIME AND NOW ALL THE
[02:59:40] RESTAURANTS, IF YOU'RE A RESTAURATEUR YOU CAN'T GET A
[02:59:44] SPACE.
[02:59:44] YOU CAN'T GET
[02:59:49] >> President Donald Trump: PEOPLE AND DINING AND THEY'RE HAVING A GOOD TIME, AND IT'S A
[02:59:52] CAPITAL -- IT'S THE CAPITAL OF
[02:59:56] OUR COUNTRY. WE HAVE TO MAKE IT BEAUTIFUL AND WE HAVE TO MAKE IT SAFE,
[02:59:59] AND THIS BUILDING WILL BE DOWN, WHEN IT'S COMPLETED, WILL BE
[03:00:02] ONE OF THE GREAT BUILDINGS IN WASHINGTON, D.C., AND THEY'LL
[03:00:05] UNDERSTAND THAT. MOST PEOPLE UNDERSTAND.
[03:00:08] THIS WHOLE MAGNIFICENT SPACE WILL BE A VERY IMPORTANT SPACE
[03:00:12] IN THE FUTURE LIFE OF OUR COUNTRY.
[03:00:13] SO WIT THAT, I'D LIKE TO HAVE
[03:00:22] THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, A GREAT MAN, EIGHT YEARS IN
[03:00:26] NORTH DAKOTA, A VERY SUCCESSFUL
[03:00:28] BUSINESSMAN, AND HE'S DONE A
[03:00:31] REALLY GREAT JOB RUNNING THE
[03:00:33] INTERIOR AND HE'S DONE A GREAT
[03:00:38] JOB. DOUG BURGUM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
[03:00:41] [Applause] >> THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT.
[03:00:43] TODAY IS A DAY OF CELEBRATION -- >> Andrew: ALL RIGHT.
[03:00:47] YOU ARE LISTENING TO U.S.
[03:00:48] PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP MAKING
[03:00:53] MOST, ALMOST ENTIRE TEN
[03:00:55] MINUTES, ABOUT THE BALLROOM THAT'S UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
[03:00:59] SOME WOULD SAY