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00:00:49WASHINGTON THIS HOUR. DEMOCRATS WILL TAKE CONTROL OF
00:00:52CONGRESS IN JANUARY. THEY ONLY REQUIRED THREE SEATS TO WIN THE HOUSE.
00:00:55SO FAR, THEY HAVE PICKED UP MORE
00:00:58THAN TWO DOZEN BUT IT COULD TAKE DAYS UNTIL ALL THE RACES ARE
00:01:01DECIDE. BUT IT'S THE SENATE WHERE THE
00:01:04DEMOCRATS MADE A LANDMARK BREAKTHROUGH, WINNING SEVEN SEATS FROM THE REPUBLICANS, ALL
00:01:08OF THEM TOSS-UPS GOING THEIR WAY.
00:01:10AND DEMOCRATS COULD WIN MORE BUILDING ON THAT SENATE
00:01:13MAJORITY.
00:01:16WE HAVE EXTENSIVE MIDTERM ELECTION COVERAGE FOR YOU THIS
00:01:18HOUR WITH OUR CBC NEWS TEAM, MARK CARCASOLE IS IN WASHINGTON
00:01:22LOOKING AT THE BIG PICTURE FOR US. CONTROL OF U.S. CONGRESS
00:01:25SHIFTING TO THE DEMOCRATS. MORNING LIVE HOST DAVID COMMON
00:01:28IS IN DETROIT LOOKING AT AMERICA'S FIRST MUSLIM SENATOR,
00:01:32DEMOCRAT ABDUL EL-SAYED.
00:01:37STEVE FUTTERMAN IS IN TEXAS
00:01:40INCLUDING JAMES TALARICO'S SENATE WIN AND MIKE CRAWLEY IS
00:01:43IN MAINE WHERE SUSAN COLLINS
00:01:47DEFEATED AFTER DECADES IN OFFICE. BEFORE WE HEAD TO THE UNITED
00:01:50STATES, WE WANT TO HEAD TO OTTAWA WHERE YOU CAN SEE
00:01:53CANADA'S MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR CANADA-U.S. TRADE, DOMINIC LeBLANC, IS SPEAKING.
00:01:57>> I WANT TO CONGRATULATE THE
00:01:58WOMEN AND MEN WHO WERE ELECTED
00:02:01TO THE U.S. CONGRESS, MANY INTERESTING RACES AT THE STATE
00:02:04LEVEL AS WELL.
00:02:06SO WE CONGRATULATE THOSE THAT WERE ELECTED.
00:02:09BUT OUR FOCUS HASN'T CHANGED.
00:02:12YESTERDAY WE WENT TO WORK ON
00:02:14ISSUES OF AFFORDABILITY FOR CANADIANS ON BUILDING MAJOR
00:02:18PROJECTS, ON STRENGTHENING THE CANADIAN ECONOMY, ON
00:02:22DIVERSIFYING OUR TRADING RELATIONSHIPS.
00:02:23THAT WAS OUR FOCUS YESTERDAY.
00:02:28THAT IS -- >> AArti: IT SOUNDS LIKE WE'VE
00:02:37TOMORROW. IT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT MOMENT
00:02:40FOR THE COUNTRY TO TAKE STOCK ECONOMICALLY.
00:02:44SO THAT WORK CONTINUES. ALSO I WOULD NOTE THAT THE
00:02:47PEOPLE ELECTED TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS LAST EVENING
00:02:50WON'T BE SEATED UNTIL JANUARY,
00:02:54SO THE CURRENT CONGRESS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE.
00:02:57AS WILL THE ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP WITH WHOM WE'RE
00:03:00HAVING OUR TRADE DISCUSSIONS. SO PERHAPS JUST IN FRENCH, AND
00:03:04THEN I'D BE VERY HAPPY TO TAKE
00:03:05YOUR QUESTIONS, OF COURSE.
00:03:15[ Voice of Interpreter ]... ELECTION RESULTS YESTERDAY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND
00:03:19THE SENATE.
00:03:23AS WELL AS THE ELECTIONS IN THE
00:03:25STATES AND THE GOVERNORS WHO
00:03:28WERE ELECTED. AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO
00:03:32CONTINUING TO WORK WITH THE U.S.
00:03:35ADMINISTRATION ON ISSUES OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO CANADA, BUT
00:03:38I THINK THAT WHAT WE NEED TO
00:03:42NOTE HERE IS IS THAT OR FOCUS
00:03:44YESTERDAY OF A GOVERNMENT WAS ON
00:03:48AFFORDABILITY AND BUILDING A
00:03:54RESILIENT AND INQUIRIES R
00:03:56DIVERSIFIED ECONOMY THROUGH DIVERSIFIED TRADE AND MORE
00:03:59PARTNERSHIPS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES AND THOSE WERE A FOCUS
00:04:02FOR THE GOVERNMENT YESTERDAY AND THEY REMAIN THE FOCUS FOR THE
00:04:06GOVERNMENT TODAY AND TOMORROW.
00:04:09TOMORROW, YOU WILL SEE THE
00:04:11FEDERAL BUDGET AND I THINK IT'S
00:04:15CLEAR THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS
00:04:17DETERMINED TO WORK ON ISSUES
00:04:21THAT DO NOT DEPEND ENTIRELY ON OUR DISCUSSIONS WITH THE UNITED
00:04:25STATES AND IN A SENSE, THE U.S.
00:04:29ELECTION RESULTS ARE INTERESTING BUT THEY DON'T MAKE ANY
00:04:31SIGNIFICANT IMPACT IN TERMS OF OUR FOCUS AND THE WORK BEING
00:04:34DONE BY OUR GOVERNMENT.
00:04:37HOWEVER, WE WILL BE OPEN TO
00:04:41PURSUING THOSE DISCUSSIONS WHICH
00:04:42HAVE BEEN PRODUCTIVE IN RECENT
00:04:45WEEKS WITH THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION UNDER Mr. TRUMP
00:04:47AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SPEAKING
00:04:50TO HOWARD LUTNICK AND JAMIESON
00:04:52GREER HOPEFULLY IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. >> Reporter:... AMERICANS REJECT
00:04:56THE IDEA OF TARIFFS, SO WHY ISN'T THIS CHANGING YOUR APPROACH?
00:04:59IS IT POSSIBLE TO GO BACK NOW
00:05:00AND SAY, LOOK, WE DON'T WANT ANY
00:05:04TARIFFS AT ALL? >> I THINK, ASHLEY, IT'S NOT
00:05:07PARTICULARLY CONSTRUCTIVE FOR CANADIANS TO INTERPRET RESULTS IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY'S ELECTION.
00:05:11WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO THAT.
00:05:13I HAVE EVERY CONFIDENCE THAT
00:05:17YOUR AMERICAN JOURNAL LIST COLLEAGUES WILL BE ASKING ALL OF
00:05:19THOSE QUESTIONS OVER THE NEXT NUMBER OF WEEKS.
00:05:23WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING AMERICANS INTERPRET THE RESULTS
00:05:26OF THEIR OWN ELECTIONS.
00:05:28IT'S NOT UP FOR CANADIANS TO TRY
00:05:31AND READ WHY PARTICULAR AMERICAN
00:05:33VOTERS WENT IN A PARTICULAR DIRECTION.
00:05:36OUR JOB IS TO FOCUS ON WHAT WE
00:05:38CAN CONTROL AND THAT'S TO WORK
00:05:41WITH THE PEOPLE THAT AMERICANS
00:05:42HAVE ELECTED AND IN THE CASE OF
00:05:46OUR TRADE CONVERSATIONS, THOSE ARE CONDUCTED AT THE LEVEL OF
00:05:48THE AMERICAN EXECUTIVE WITH
00:05:51CABINET SECRETARIES THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS IN HIS GOVERNMENT AND THEY REMAIN IN
00:05:54OFFICE TODAY AND THOSE ARE THE
00:05:57PEOPLE WITH WHOM WE'LL BE HAVING
00:06:00THOSE CONVERSATIONS.
00:06:02[ Speaking Simultaneously ]
00:06:09>> Reporter: DO YOU THINK THESE ELECTION RESULTS COULD CHANGE
00:06:11THE DYNAMIC IN CANADIAN TRADE RELATIONS? >> Voice of Interpreter: WE'LL SEE.
00:06:15IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS AND WEEKS,
00:06:16WE'LL SEE HOW THINGS EVOLVE.
00:06:20PERHAPS I DIDN'T MAKE THIS
00:06:25CLEAR, BUT AS FAR AS WE'RE CONCERNED THERE WILL BE NO CHANGE IN OUR APPROACH TO OUR
00:06:27TRADE NEGOTIATIONS.
00:06:30WE KNOW WHAT WE WANT IN TERMS OF
00:06:35AN AGREEMENT THAT IS IN THE ECONOMIC AGREEMENT OF CANADA AND
00:06:39STRENGTH ENS CANADA'S SOVEREIGNTY. FOR US, OUR APPROACH WILL NOT
00:06:42CHANGE AND WE DON'T INTEND TO
00:06:45SPECULATE ON THE APPROACH BEING
00:06:49TAKEN BY THE AMERICANS. IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS, I HOPE TO
00:06:52SPEAK TO HOWARD AND JAMIESON,
00:06:57BUT AGAIN THERE, WE ARE NOT
00:07:01RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WAY IN WHICH THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION CONDUCTS ITS CONVERSATIONS.
00:07:05WE'RE DOING OUR WORK.
00:07:10>> Reporter: [ Voice of Interpreter ] DOES THIS GIVE YOU MORE LEVERAGE? >> Voice of Interpreter: I GUESS
00:07:13WE'LL SEE IN A FEW WEEKS.
00:07:17THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE
00:07:21PRESIDENT AGREE TO WORK OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS TO TRY AND REACH
00:07:24A DEAL THAT IS IN THE ECONOMIC INTERESTS OF BOTH COUNTRIES AND
00:07:28I THINK Mr. CARNEY TALKED ABOUT
00:07:32THIS BEFORE HE LEFT AND THE FACT
00:07:36IS THAT, YES, SOME PROGRESS HAS
00:07:41BEEN MADE WEEKS BUT WE'RE, YOU
00:07:47KNOW, SPENDING OUR TIME IMAGINING WHERE OUR LEVERAGE IS
00:07:50OR WHY VOTERS IN THIS OR THAT
00:07:56STATE VOLT VOTED THE WAY THEY DID. OUR FOCUS IS TO CONTINUE AND
00:07:59THOSE DISCUSSIONS, AS I SAID,
00:08:04HAVE BEEN FAIRLY POSITIVE. BUT WE'RE NOT THERE YET.
00:08:06>> Reporter: YOUR COUNTERTARIFF STRATEGY WAS DESIGNED TO EXTRACT
00:08:10POLITICAL PRESSURE ON THE UNITED
00:08:14STATES. HOW CAN YOU SAY IF YOU DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE MORE LEVERAGE?
00:08:17THE WHOLE POINT OF THE COUNTERTARIFFS WAS TO TARGETED REPUBLICANS ON THE TARIFF
00:08:21QUESTION? >> YOU HAVEN'T SEEN ME SAY THAT.
00:08:23YOU'VE SEEN ME SAY THE REASON WE
00:08:25PUT IN COUNTERTARIFFS WERE TO PROTECT CANADIAN INDUSTRIES, AND
00:08:28NOT CREATE AN UNFAIR PLAYING
00:08:31FIELD WHERE SUDDENLY AN EXPORT TO THE UNITED STATES OF A
00:08:34PARTICULAR PRODUCT WAS FACING A HUGE AND IN SOME CASES
00:08:37PROHIBITIVE TARIFF AND THE SAME
00:08:40EXPORT WOULD COME IN TARIFF FREE TO THE CANADIAN MARKET.
00:08:42THE PURPOSE OF OUR TARIFFS WERE
00:08:45TO ADD TO THE PROTECTION OF
00:08:48CANADIAN INDUSTRIES AND CANADIAN WORKERS.
00:08:51HOW THEY WERE INTERPRETED BY
00:08:52AMERICAN VOTERS IS UP TO AMERICANS TO DISCUSS.
00:08:55[ Speaking Simultaneously ] >> Reporter: [ Voice of Interpreter ] CONSIDERING THIS
00:08:59NEW CONGRESS CAN CONCERNING THE PRESIDENT, WHY NOT USE THIS AS A
00:09:01WAY TO GET A BETTER DEAL AT THE TABLE?
00:09:04>> AGAIN, WHAT THE NEW CONGRESS
00:09:07MIGHT DECIDE TO DO, WHEN THEY'RE
00:09:16ALLISON UNIVERSITY TODAY. THAT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE THE
00:09:19WORK THAT WE HAVE TO DO IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.
00:09:23THE AMERICAN CONGRESS WILL ACT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN CONGRESS.
00:09:26OUR WORK WILL BE FOCUSED ON WHAT WE CAN DO HERE AT HOME. [ Speaking Simultaneously ]
00:09:30>> Reporter: YOU DON'T THINK
00:09:30YOU'RE ON BETTER FOOTING AT
00:09:34ALL? >> AArti: WE WERE LISTENING THERE TO THE MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR CANADA-U.S.
00:09:37TRADE, DOMINIC LeBLANC, AS HE WAS DISCUSSING AND TAKING
00:09:41QUESTIONS ABOUT THE RESULTS OF THOSE U.S. MIDTERM ELECTIONS.
00:09:45AGAIN, WE SAW BOTH THE HOUSE AND
00:09:49THE SENATE GO UNDER DEMOCRAT CONTROL. INTERESTING TO LISTEN IN TO
00:09:53MINISTER LeBLANC'S RESPONSES THERE, SAYING THAT IT'S AN IMPORTANT MOMENT FOR THE
00:09:57COUNTRY, THAT, OF COURSE, THE
00:10:00TALKS BETWEEN HIMSELF AND HIS
00:10:02U.S. COUNTERPARTS, JAMIESON GREER, HOWARD LUTNICK, AND HE
00:10:06SAYS THE PRESIDENT STILL REMAINS IN PLACE, THAT THEY ARE PROGRESSING AND THAT PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE.
00:10:09BUT WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S MORE LEVERAGE, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT
00:10:12THEY WILL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE
00:10:14HOW THINGS EVOLVE COME JANUARY
00:10:18AND PERHAPS AS TALKS CONTINUE ON AND THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE
00:10:21CONTINUING RIGHT NOW. I DO WANT TO POINT OUT TOO, AND
00:10:24CERTAINLY YOU CAN PERHAPS ADD A LITTLE DETAIL HERE, THAT THERE
00:10:28WAS A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THERE WAS STRATEGY WITH
00:10:31COUNTERMEASURES AND IF THAT WAS EFFECTIVE HERE, AND MINISTER
00:10:33LeBLANC ESSENTIALLY SAID, YOU
00:10:35NEVER HEARD ME SAY THAT. MÉLANIE JOLY DID MAKE A REMARK
00:10:39ABOUT STRATEGY AND BEING STRATEGIC WHEN IT CAME TO COUNTERTARIFFS.
00:10:42>> Reporter: INDEED. AND WE HEARD A PUSHBACK FROM THE
00:10:46U.S. ON THAT AND OTHER COMMENTS MADE BY CANADIAN OFFICIALS,
00:10:50CANADIAN COMMENTATORS, AARTI,
00:10:52WHICH PROMPTED ACCUSATIONS OF POTENTIAL MIDTERM ELECTION
00:10:55INTERFERENCE, SOMETHING THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT WAS AWARE OF
00:10:59IN TERMS OF THESE ACCUSATIONS BEING MADE AND CERTAINLY DID NOT
00:11:02WANT TO INTERFERE IN ANY WAY. TODAY WHAT WE ARE SEEING IS THIS
00:11:05IS ACTUALLY THE FIRST REACTION WE'RE GETTING FROM THE CANADIAN
00:11:09GOVERNMENT ON THE U.S. MIDTERM RESULTS.
00:11:12THE PRIME MINISTER IS NOT AT THE LIBERAL CAUCUS MEETING THIS MORNING.
00:11:15IT WAS NOT ON HIS ITINERARY. WE WERE THINKING MAYBE HE MIGHT SHOW UP.
00:11:19IN FACT, HE'S NOT PLANNING TO ATTEND. HE LANDED IN OTTAWA REALLY EARLY
00:11:22IN THE MORNING FROM HIS TRIP TO
00:11:24ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA SO THAT'S WHY HE'S NOT HERE.
00:11:27HE WAS AWAY FOR A MEETING WITH COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES. SO WE'RE HEARING FROM THE
00:11:31MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR CANADA-U.S. TRADE, DOMINIC LeBLANC, WHO SAYS HE WILL SPEAK
00:11:35TO HIS U.S. COUNTERPARTS SOON
00:11:37ABOUT THE TRADE TALKS THAT PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY AND U.S.
00:11:40PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAVE BOTH AGREED TO RAMP UP IN THE COMING WEEKS WITH THE HOPE OF LANDING A
00:11:44NEW TRADE DEAL. WHAT I NOTED FROM HIS OPENING
00:11:48REMARKS, LeBLANC'S OPENING REMARKS, TO REPORTERS THERE WAS
00:11:50THAT HE WENT OUT OF HIS WAY TO
00:11:53REMIND PEOPLE, THE CANADIAN
00:11:55PUBLIC, THAT THE PEOPLE WHO WERE ELECTED TO CONGRESS AND THE
00:11:59SENATE IN THE U.S., THEY DON'T ACTUALLY TAKE THEIR SEATS UNTIL
00:12:02JANUARY. AND HE POINTED OUT AS WELL THAT DONALD TRUMP REMAINS THE
00:12:06PRESIDENT IN THE U.S., THAT THAT ADMINISTRATION IS STILL IN
00:12:10PLACE, SO THAT'S WHO THE CANADIAN SIDE WILL STILL HAVE TO
00:12:14NEGOTIATE WITH MOVING FORWARD, EVEN IF THE DEMOCRATS, WHO HAVE
00:12:18BEEN ELECTED IN THIS BLUE TSUNAMI IN THE U.S., TRY TO
00:12:21STALL OR REVERSES SOME OF TRUMP'S POLICIES.
00:12:25THE PRESIDENT STILL HAS A VETO. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HERE IS VERY
00:12:28MUCH AWARE OF, AND SO THAT'S WHY
00:12:31I THINK WE'RE HEARING FROM LeBLANC THAT THE FOCUS FOR CANADA HAS NOT CHANGED IN TERMS
00:12:35OF ITS APPROACH AND THE WAY IT
00:12:37WANTS TO HANDLE THE COUNTRY'S PRIORITIES.
00:12:40THIS COUNTRY'S PRIORITIES MOVING FORWARD. WE HAVE THE FEDERAL BUDGET
00:12:43COMING OUT TOMORROW.
00:12:59OF COURSE TRY TO GET A NEW TRADE DEAL WITH THE U.S. WHICH REMAINS
00:13:03A MAJOR FOCUS, BUT LeBLANC
00:13:06MAKING IT CLEAR THAT IT'S NOT
00:13:08ENTIRELY CERTAIN WHAT THIS MEANS
00:13:10IN TERMS OF WHAT CANADA'S
00:13:12LEVERAGE WILL BE MOVING FORWARD
00:13:15AND WHETHER WE'LL SEE A MAJOR
00:13:19BENEFITS FROM THIS IN THE COMING WEEKS BUT OF COURSE THE U.S.
00:13:23MIDTERM RESULTS HAVE SENT A STRONG MESSAGE THAT AMERICANS
00:13:26ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S DIRECTION, SO
00:13:29IT SEEMED TO ME THAT THE MINISTER WAS REALLY LEAVING IT
00:13:32WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND COMMENTATORS DOWN THERE TO TRY
00:13:35TO MAKE THAT POINT CLEARER TO
00:13:37THE AMERICAN SIDE THAT THE TRUMP
00:13:40ADMINISTRATION TO TRY TO ADD MORE POLITICAL PRESSURE ON THEM
00:13:42TO REVERSE SOME OF THEIR POLICIES AND THAT MIGHT INCLUDE
00:13:46THE TARIFF POLICIES MOVING FORWARD BUT I THINK WE'LL HAVE
00:13:47TO WAIT AND SEE IF THAT WILL ACTUALLY HAPPEN SINCE THE U.S.
00:13:51PRESIDENT IS KNOWN TO BE VERY UNPREDICTABLE.
00:13:53>> AArti: OLIVIA, TOO, WE DID ALSO HEAR FROM MINISTER LeBLANC,
00:13:57WHICH YOU TOUCHED ON THAT ESSENTIALLY HE MADE VERY CLEAR WE ARE CONDUCTING OUR
00:14:00DISCUSSIONS WITH THE EXECUTIVE LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT, SOMETHING
00:14:03THAT HAS NOT CHANGED AS A RESULT OF THESE MIDTERM ELECTIONS.
00:14:07AND, IN FACT, THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER, PIERRE POILIEVRE,
00:14:09WAS ALSO GIVING REACTION AND WAS ASKED ABOUT ON WHETHER OR NOT
00:14:13THERE COULD BE CHANGE FOR CANADA AND CANADA'S POSITION WHEN IT COMES TO THIS TRADE WAR, GIVEN
00:14:17THE FACT THAT IT IS THE EXECUTIVE LEVEL THAT IS, IN
00:14:20FACT, IN CHARGE OF WHAT WE'RE SEEING WITH TARIFFS AND THIS
00:14:22TRADE WAR.
00:14:25LET'S QUICKLY LISTEN IN TO PIERRE POILIEVRE.
00:14:29>> IT DEPENDS HOW THE PRESIDENT MAKES HIS POLITICAL
00:14:32CALCULATIONS, BUT ONE THING IS FOR SURE, ANY PRESIDENT, FIRST
00:14:35OR SECOND TERM, EARLY OR LATE
00:14:39MANDATE, NEEDS AS MUCH GOODWILL FROM THE POPULATION TO GET
00:14:42ANYTHING DONE, AND WE HAVE THAT GOODWILL ON CANADA'S SIDE.
00:14:46SO I'M SAYING IS LET'S LEVERAGE
00:14:48THAT GOODWILL TO PRESSURE THE ADMINISTRATION AND CONGRESS TO
00:14:52REMOVE ALL THE TARIFFS, LOWER THE COST OF LIVING FOR
00:14:55AMERICANS, BUT ALSO BOOST JOBS
00:14:58AND BUSINESS FOR LONG STRUGGLING
00:14:59CANADIANS. >> AArti: WE WERE LISTENING IN
00:15:03THERE TO THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER. THAT AGAIN HIS FIRST REACTION TO
00:15:07FOLLOW THOSE MIDTERM ELECTION RESULT AS WELL. WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF WHAT WE
00:15:10HEARD FROM PIERRE POILIEVRE? >> Reporter: WELL, FROM WHAT WE
00:15:14HEARD FROM CONSERVATIVE LEADER PIERRE POILIEVRE THERE, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT HE IS URGING THE
00:15:18FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO USE THE
00:15:19MOMENTUM FROM THE MIDTERM
00:15:22RESULTS TO REMIND THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION THAT THE AMERICAN
00:15:25PEOPLE ARE UNHAPPY WITH THE
00:15:28DIRECTION THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS TAKEN THE
00:15:31COUNTRY, THAT BEING THE U.S., AND THAT THEY'RE UNHAPPY WITH
00:15:35THE TARIFF POLICIES FROM THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, WHICH IS
00:15:39MAKING LIFE MORE AFFORDABLE -- UNAFFORDABLE IN THE U.S.
00:15:42IT'S CAUSING BUSINESS UNCERTAINTY AND THEY DON'T LIKE THIS TRADE WAR ESSENTIALLY WITH
00:15:46THE U.S., SO I THINK WHAT WE'RE HEARING FROM THE CONSERVATIVE
00:15:49LEADER THERE, IS THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD USE
00:15:51THAT AND CONTINUE TO REMIND THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THIS
00:15:54TO GET THE BEST DEAL POSSIBLE FOR CANADA FOR NEW TRADE
00:15:58AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES. NOW, WE'VE ALREADY SEEN THE
00:16:01CANADIAN SIDE TRY TO DO THIS. IT'S BEEN REMINDING THE
00:16:04AMERICANS FOR QUITE SOME TIME,
00:16:08AARTI, THAT TARIFFS HURT AMERICANS AND THEY DO MAKE LIFE
00:16:11MORE UNAFFORDABLE FOR THEIR OWN
00:16:14CITIZENS, AND YET WE HAVE SEEN
00:16:15THE U.S. PRESIDENT CONTINUE DOWN HIS TARIFF POLICIES, SO WE'LL
00:16:19HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE IF THE RESULTS FROM LAST NIGHT WILL
00:16:22CHANGE HIS MIND. >> AArti: OLIVIA, THANK YOU FOR THIS.
00:16:25THAT IS THE CBC'S OLIVIA STEFANOVICH IN OTTAWA.
00:16:29WE WANT TO HEAD BACK TO THE U.S. CAPITOL BECAUSE THE POLITICAL
00:16:32GROUND WILL SHIFT IN A SIGNIFICANT WAY FOR TRUMP IN
00:16:35JANUARY WHEN THE DEMOCRATS TAKE OVER CONGRESS. SO WHAT WILL THAT MEAN GOING FORWARD?
00:16:39LET'S GO TO THE CBC'S MARK CARCASOLE WHO JOINS US LIVE FROM CAPITOL HILL.
00:16:43HEY, MARK. SO THE DEMOCRATS BREAKTHROUGH IN
00:16:46PLACES WHERE TRUMP WON BY DOUBLE DIGITS TWO YEARS AGO IS EXTRAORDINARY.
00:16:50WHAT DO THEY DO NOW WITH THIS POWER? >> Reporter: THERE ARE MANY
00:16:54OPTIONS, MANY POWERS BEFORE THEM, AARTI. WHETHER THEY CAN PROPERLY
00:16:57EXERCISE THEM, THAT'S ANOTHER QUESTION. THERE'S A LOT OF POTENTIAL FOR
00:17:00THEM TO CREATE SOME REAL CHANGE IF ESSENTIALLY EVERYTHING GOES THEIR WAY.
00:17:04AND THEN THERE'S A LOT OF POTENTIAL FOR THEM TO DEADLOCK
00:17:08CONGRESS. AND EITHER WAY, THAT IS A STRATEGY IN ITSELF.
00:17:11NOW THAT THEY HAVE FULL CONTROL OF CONGRESS AND THE HOUSE AND
00:17:15THE SENATE, THE DEMOCRATS DO HAVE THE POWER TO PASS THEIR OWN LEGISLATION.
00:17:19HOWEVER, ANYTHING THEY DO PASS HAS TO RECEIVE PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL.
00:17:21THAT IN ITSELF IS A HURDLE. WE WILL GET A LITTLE BIT MORE
00:17:24INTO THAT ASPECT OF THINGS IN A LITTLE BIT.
00:17:26BUT THEY ALSO HAVE THE POWER TO
00:17:29BLOCK ANY REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURE THAT COMES THEIR WAY. AND THAT IS WHERE I TALK ABOUT
00:17:33THE STRATEGY OF THEM BOGGING
00:17:35THINGS DOWN IN CONGRESS.
00:17:38THAT IS ONE POTENTIAL THING THEY CAN LOOK AT. IN ADDITION TO THOSE LEGISLATIVE
00:17:41POWERS, THE DEMOCRATS HAVE THE ABILITY TO LAUNCH INVESTIGATIONS
00:17:45AGAINST THE PRESIDENT AND HIS ASSOCIATES, SUBJECT THEM TO
00:17:48CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT. PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FAMILY MEMBERS
00:17:50ARE EXPECTED TO, AT SOME POINT,
00:17:52COME UNDER CONGRESSIONAL
00:17:57OVERSIGHT.
00:17:58HIS SONS DON, HIS SON-IN-LAW,
00:18:02JARED KUSHNER, THEIR BUSINESS
00:18:03TIES WILL BE SCRUTINIZED MORE
00:18:07CLOSELY. ROBERT GARCIA, WHO'S EXPECTED TO BECOME CHAIR OF THE HOUSE
00:18:11OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE HAS MADE IT CLEAR THAT IS A PRIORITY TO HIM.
00:18:13YESTERDAY ON "X" HE POSTED A SIMPLE CAPITALIZED TWO-WORD
00:18:16TWEET THAT SUMMARIZED EVERYTHING WHEN HE TOLD PRESIDENT TRUMP AND
00:18:20HIS ASSOCIATES, QUOTE, "LAWYER UP."
00:18:23NOW, WITH THE POWERS BEFORE THEM, WITH THE LANDSCAPE AHEAD
00:18:26OF THEM, HAKEEM JEFFRIES, WHO IS
00:18:29SET TO BE THE NEXT SPEAKER OF
00:18:30THE HOUSE, IS A NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE. HE IS THE FIRST BLACK PERSON IN
00:18:34HISTORY TO BECOME HOUSE SPEAKER, SAYS THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE A
00:18:38LOT OF PLANS. THEY HAVE A WIDE AGENDA.
00:18:40HE SPOKE TO CNN LATE THIS MORNING TALKING ABOUT EXACTLY
00:18:44WHAT'S ON THAT DEMOCRAT AGENDA.
00:18:46>> WE NOW HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY
00:18:50TO GOVERN ON AFFORDABILITY, TO
00:18:52LOWER THE HIGH COST OF ALL THE THINGS, THE HIGH COSTS OF
00:18:56GROCERIES, THE HIGH COST OF HOUSING, THE HIGH COST OF GAS.
00:18:59WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT TO MAKE
00:19:02HEALTHCARE AFFORDABLE FOR EVERY
00:19:04SINGLE AMERICAN SO THAT PEOPLE
00:19:06CAN ACTUALLY AFFORD TO GO SEE A
00:19:09DOCTOR WHEN THEY NEED ONE.
00:19:12>> Reporter: SO GIVEN SOME OF THE FACTORS THAT I'VE LAID OUT
00:19:15FOR YOU ALREADY, THERE'S SOME IMMEDIATE DIFFICULTY THERE.
00:19:18THERE'S ALSO THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATS DON'T TAKE CONTROL OF
00:19:21CONGRESS UNTIL JANUARY. SO THE REPUBLICANS WHO CURRENTLY
00:19:25CONTROL CONGRESS STILL HAVE ESSENTIALLY TWO MONTHS TO DO WHAT THEY NEED TO DO.
00:19:28AMERICANS WILL CERTAINLY BE WATCHING CLOSELY TO SEE WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT.
00:19:31THERE'S ALSO THE FACT THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP STILL RETAINS
00:19:35EXECUTIVE POWER. AND THAT HE CAN GOVERN BY EXECUTIVE ORDER.
00:19:37WE'VE SEEN HIM DO THAT MULTIPLE TIMES OVER THE FIRST TWO YEARS
00:19:41OF THIS TERM WHERE HE CAN LAUNCH AN EXECUTIVE ORDER AND
00:19:44ESSENTIALLY SKIRT AROUND CONGRESS TO GET DONE WHAT HE WANTS TO GET DONE.
00:19:47CASE IN POINT: THE TARIFFS AGAINST CANADA AND OTHER
00:19:51COUNTRIES, THE TRADE WAR, ALL OF
00:19:52THAT CAME FROM EXECUTIVE ORDERS. >> AArti: MARK, DEMOCRATS ARE
00:19:56ALSO TALKING ABOUT USING THEIR CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITY TO PUSH
00:19:59BACK AT TRUMP'S TRADE WAR ON CANADA, SOMETHING, OF COURSE, CANADIANS WILL BE WATCHING
00:20:03CLOSELY. 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
00:20:10WANT TO SOFTEN OR COMPLETELY GET RID OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S TARIFFS.
00:20:14THEY'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR SOME TIME.
00:20:17THERE HAVE BEEN SOME SYMBOLISTIC
00:20:21BILLS, IF YOU WILL, WHICH THEY KNEW PROBABLY WOULDN'T PASS BUT THEY WERE PUT OUT THERE JUST TO
00:20:24SHOW A SYMBOL OF THEIR INTENT
00:20:27AND ALSO WITHIN THE LAST WEEK OR SO, JUST LAST WEEKEND, SENATOR
00:20:30RON WIDEN, THE TOP DEMOCRAT ON THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE,
00:20:33TOLD REPORTERS, QUOTE, "ONE OF THE MOST OBVIOUS PRIORITIES
00:20:37WOULD BE REPEALING TRUMP'S TARIFFS ON CANADA WHICH ARE
00:20:40RAISING PRICE AND IS HARMING COMMUNITIES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER."
00:20:43NOW HERE'S THE OTHER WRINKLE. PRESIDENT TRUMP STILL RETAINS
00:20:47VETO POWER AND EVEN THOUGH THEY CONTROL CONGRESS NOW, THE
00:20:50DEMOCRATS DO NOT HAVE THE TWO-THIRDS SUPER MAJORITY REQUIRED TO GET AROUND VETO
00:20:54UNLESS, OF COURSE, THEY CAN GET SOME REPUBLICANS ON THEIR SIDE
00:20:58IN THESE CRUCIAL VOTES TO GET
00:21:00AROUND THAT VETO, GET TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY. IT IS CONCEIVABLE.
00:21:04IT'S NOT OUTSIDE THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY THAT SOME REPUBLICANS MIGHT DO THAT, GIVEN
00:21:08THESE ARE AFFORDABILITY AND COST OF LIVING MEASURES AND THAT WAS
00:21:11SUCH AN IMPORTANT PRIORITY FOR VOTERS IN THESE MID-TERMS.
00:21:14SO WE'LL SEE HOW REPUBLICANS VOTE THERE.
00:21:18PRESIDENT TRUMP, FOR HIS PART, KNOWS THAT HE HAS THIS VETO
00:21:21POWER AND HE MADE IT CLEAR ON FOX NEWS LAST NIGHT, HE PLANS TO
00:21:23USE IT. >> President Donald Trump: IT'S
00:21:27BEEN DONE BEFORE, AS YOU KNOW, NUMEROUS TIMES. IT'S THE POWER OF VETO.
00:21:31IT'S ONE OF THE STRONGER POWERS
00:21:33THAT A PRESIDENT HAS, AND THEY'LL SEND OVER THINGS THAT
00:21:36ARE INSANE AND I'LL VETO THEM AND AFTER A COUPLE OF MONTHS OF
00:21:40VETOES, THEY'LL CALL AND THEY'LL
00:21:42SAY, HOW DO WE GET THIS STUFF DONE? AND WE'LL WORK TOGETHER.
00:21:45I HAVE A LOT OF FRIEND THAT ARE DEMOCRATS, BELIEVE IT OR NOT.
00:21:49>> Reporter: HE SAID PREVIOUSLY THAT IF THE REPUBLICANS LOST
00:21:52CONGRESS, HE WOULD TURN INTO Mr. VETO AND PERHAPS LAST NIGHT
00:21:55ON SOCIAL MEDIA, WE SAW THE FIRST SIGN OF THAT TRANSITION
00:21:58WHEN HE POST THIS HAD PHOTO, A
00:22:00RED MAGA STYLE BALL CAP BUT INSTEAD OF SAYING "MAKE AMERICA
00:22:04GREAT AGAIN" THE WORD EMBR
00:22:07EMBROIDERED IN CAPITAL LETTERS, "VETO."
00:22:10WE DON'T KNOW IF WE WILL HEAR FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP ON SOCIAL
00:22:12MEDIA OR IN PERSON.
00:22:14THE OFFICIAL ITINERARY SAYS HE HAS NO PUBLIC EVENTS SCHEDULED.
00:22:18>> AArti: THAT IS THE CBC'S MARK CARCASOLE IN WASHINGTON. ONE
00:22:21RACES WHERE CANADA AND DONALD TRUMP'S TARIFFS WERE PLAYING A
00:22:24KEY ROLE WAS MICHIGAN.
00:22:26IN THE END, IT WAS A DECISIVE
00:22:29VICTORY FOR DEMOCRAT ABDUL
00:22:34EL-SAYED OVER GOP CANDIDATE MIKE ROGERS.
00:22:37DAVID COMMON JOINS US FROM DETROIT.
00:22:38YOU'VE HAD A LONG NIGHT.
00:22:41YOU WERE COVERING EL-SAYED AND THAT VICTORY PARTY.
00:22:44IT LOOKS LIKE THE MIKE ROGERS AD WITH SIPPING LABATT'S AND
00:22:48WATCHING HOCKEY DIDN'T NECESSARILY GO FAR ENOUGH.
00:22:51IT WAS A RESOUNDING VICTORY FOR EL-SAYED LAST NIGHT.
00:22:54WHAT STOOD OUT TO YOU? >> Reporter: WELL, IN MANY WAYS,
00:22:57LOOK, THIS IS NOT A STATE THAT HAS SENT A REPUBLICAN TO THE
00:23:01SENATE IN A NUMBER OF YEARS, SO
00:23:03IT WAS IN SOME WAYS ABDUL
00:23:06EL-SAYED'S TO LOSE. HAVING SAID THAT, IT WAS A LOT
00:23:10CLOSER THAN MANY OTHER RACES OFTEN ARE.
00:23:12IT'S WHY IT WASN'T CALLED OR
00:23:14PROJECTED UNTIL ABOUT 2, 2:30 A.M., WHEN A NUMBER OF OTHER
00:23:18STATES HAD ALREADY CALLED THEIRS. IT SPEAKS TO HOW CLOSE THIS RACE
00:23:21HAS BECOME. BUT ALSO, HOW DECISIVE THAT ROLE
00:23:24OF TARIFFS, PARTICULARLY TARIFFS
00:23:26OP CANADA, HAD BEEN IN THE
00:23:29ENTIRETY OF THIS CAMPAIGN. ABDUL EL-SAYED REPRESENTS A
00:23:32PROGRESSIVE VOICE, THE FIRST
00:23:34MUSLIM IN THE SENATE, BUT ALSO A
00:23:37CHANGE IN A GENERATION THAT YOU LOOK AT THE MAKEUP OF THE U.S. SENATE.
00:23:41MANY ARE OLD.
00:23:42SOME HAVE BEEN IN THERE 70s,
00:23:4680s, BEYOND THAT. HE IS IN HIS 40s AND HE MOVES
00:23:49TOWARDS A SIX-YEAR TERM. HE HAS PROMISED TO GET RID OF DUMB TARIFFS.
00:23:53THE MECHANISM THROUGH WHICH HE
00:23:55DOES THAT GETS A BIT MORE
00:23:59COMPLICATED. HE PROMISED TO BY BEFORE I A NEW
00:24:01ERA 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
00:24:10MY NAME AND MY FAITH BUT WE ALL
00:24:12MY NAME AND MY FAITH AREN'T THE REAP YOU CAN'T AFFORD YOUR GAS.
00:24:15NOT THE REASON YOU CAN'T AFFORD YOUR GROCERIES. NOT THE REASON YOU CAN'T SEE A
00:24:19DOCTOR. WE SHOWED THAT IN A BATTLE
00:24:22BETWEEN THE MONEY AND THE MANY,
00:24:24THAT THE MANY REALLY CAN WIN.
00:24:27>> Reporter: FOR A SERIES OF
00:24:29REASONS, EL-SAYED BECAME PERHAPS
00:24:31THE MOST NOTABLE RACE IN THE
00:24:35ENTIRE MIDTERM CAMPAIGN NATIONALLY.
00:24:38HAVING SAID THAT, THE GOVERNOR RACE ALSO A VERY INTERESTING ONE.
00:24:41THATS ARE GOING TO A DEMOCRAT
00:24:43AND THE INCOMING GOVERNOR HAS
00:24:45SAID SHE WOULD BE OPEN TO DOING
00:24:48A ONE-ON-ONE STATE-ON-PROVINCE
00:24:51DEAL, MICHIGAN-ONTARIO, IF THEY
00:24:52CAN'T GET THE TARIFFS PULLED OFF AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL.
00:24:55THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW YOU DO THAT BECAUSE
00:24:59BORDERS ARE IN BOTH CANADA AND THE U.S. REGULATED BY NATIONAL LEVEL AUTHORITIES.
00:25:02BUT EVEN THE NOTION THAT SHE IS FLOATING SOMETHING LIKE THAT
00:25:06SPEAKS TO HOW CANADA AND TARIFFS PLAYED SUCH A KEY ROLE OVER THE COURSE OF THE CAMPAIGN HERE IN
00:25:10MICHIGAN. >> AArti: BUT, OF COURSE, WE KNOW THAT DONALD TRUMP, AS WE'VE
00:25:14BEEN DISCUSSING, IS ALREADY
00:25:17TAKING AND TALKING ABOUT VETO
00:25:21ACTION, IF ANY LEGISLATION
00:25:22CROSSES HIS DESK HE DOESN'T LIKE.
00:25:25WITH MICHIGAN ON THE BORDER, SO CONCERNED WITH THE AUTO INDUSTRY
00:25:28AND STEEL AND ALUMINUM, WHAT
00:25:31EFFECT 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
00:25:37LIVING AND HOW TARIFFS HAVE INFLUENCED AND INCREASED THE
00:25:40COST OF LIVING FOR MANY AMERICANS. THEY WILL GO TO WASHINGTON WITH
00:25:43THAT MESSAGE WHEN THEY TAKE POWER IN JANUARY.
00:25:45WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SEE THE
00:25:48DEGREE TO WHICH IT BECOMES A CORE FOCUS FOR THE DEMOCRATS
00:25:52UPON THEIR ASSUMPTION OF POWER. I MEAN, I WOULD NOTE EL-SAYED
00:25:56HAS HIMSELF SAID HE SUPPORTS TARIFFS.
00:25:59HE JUST DOESN'T LIKE THESE
00:26:02PARTICULAR TARIFFS WHICH HE'S CALLED DUMB. THE QUESTION FOR CANADIANS AND THE CANADIAN NEGOTIATING TEAM
00:26:06LOOKING AT TRYING TO GET A TRADE DEAL AS THESE TALKS HAVE STARTED
00:26:09TO PROGRESS IN MORE RECENT
00:26:11WEEKS, DO WE NOW CONTINUE THAT GO-SLOW APPROACH?
00:26:15DOES THE CARNEY GOVERNMENT PERHAPS WAIT OUT THE TRUMP
00:26:19ADMINISTRATION? I ACTUALLY SPOKE WITH ROB RUSSO
00:26:23ABOUT IT THIS MORNING. HE IS THE CANADA CORRESPONDENT
00:26:25FOR "THE ECONOMIST." >> THE RISK IS THAT DONALD TRUMP
00:26:29REMAINS PRESIDENT AND REMAINS
00:26:30THE MAN WHO IS IN CHARGE OF
00:26:33TRADE POLICY FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
00:26:34HE STILL HAS THE POWER TO
00:26:38SIGNIFICANTLY DAMAGE CANADA'S ECONOMY.
00:26:39I THINK WHAT WE SHOULD WATCH FOR
00:26:42NOW IS THOSE IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WHO ARE GOING TO BE LEFT,
00:26:46ARE THEY BITTER ENDERS?
00:26:48ARE THEY MAGA TRUMP REPUBLICANS?
00:26:53HE'S HAD THEM IN A HEAD LOCK FOR
00:26:56MORE THAN A DEADLOCK.
00:26:58THEIR CHOICE IS FEEALTY OR TO GO
00:27:05DOWN. >> Reporter: LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT ON A LEGISLATIVE LEVEL.
00:27:09TRUMP HAS THAT VETO PEN OR SHARPIE, BECAUSE HE USES A SHARPIE MORE OFTEN.
00:27:13IF THE DEMOCRATS TRY TO BRING IN LEGISLATION TO GET RID OF THE
00:27:16TARIFFS, HE COULD JUST WIPE IT AWAY. THEY DON'T HAVE THE SUPERMAJORITY, THE TWO-THIRDS
00:27:20YOU NEED TO OVERRIDE A PRESIDENTIAL VETO.
00:27:23BUT IF ENOUGH REPUBLICAN MEMBERS IN CONGRESS SAID, NOW, HOLD ON A
00:27:27SECOND, WE'VE GOT THE MESSAGE.
00:27:30WE WANT THE TARIFFS GONE TOO AND THEY JOIN THE DEMOCRATS OR EVEN
00:27:33THREATEN TO JOIN THE DEMOCRATS,
00:27:36THAT MIGHT BE ONE WAY IN WHICH TARIFFS, NOT JUST AGAINST
00:27:39CANADA, BUT GLOBALLY, START TO FALL, AARTI.
00:27:42>> AArti: THANKS FOR THIS,
00:27:46DAVID. THE CBC'S DAVID COMMON IN DETROIT. FROM DETROIT, WE WANT TO TAKE
00:27:49YOU TO MONTRÉAL NOW. FINANCE MINISTER FRANCOIS-PHILLIPE CHAMPAGNE IS
00:27:52TRYING ON A NEW PAIR OF SHOES AS
00:27:55A TRADITION BEFORE THE FEDERAL BUDGET IS UNVEILED, WHICH IS HAPPENING TOMORROW.
00:27:59HE'S SPEAKING WITH REPORTERS. LET'S LISTEN IN TO HIS REMARKS. >> I WAS SAYING, FIRST OF ALL,
00:28:02THANK YOU FOR HOSTING ME. IT'S A REAL -- I'M PROUD.
00:28:06I'M EVEN EMOTIONAL. BECAUSE I SEE YOU.
00:28:08I SEE WHAT YOU'VE BUILT.
00:28:11AND THE QUESTION WAS AROUND WHAT CANADIANS CAN EXPECT TOMORROW
00:28:15AND I SAID, AFFORDABILITY IS TOP OF MIND.
00:28:19IF WE GO IN THE STREETS, IT'S
00:28:20THE PRICE OF RENT, THE PRICE OF
00:28:23FOOD, THE PRICE OF GAS. THAT'S A REALITY FOR CANADIANS
00:28:27EVERY OTHER DAY OF THE WEEK, EVERY MONTH.
00:28:29WE'VE ALREADY TAKEN A NUMBER OF
00:28:33STEPS TO SUPPORT CANADIANS WITH AFFORDABILITY. THEY UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, WE
00:28:35OFTEN SAY, IT'S LIKE A BOOST IN THE BRIDGE.
00:28:39A BOOST TODAY BECAUSE ECONOMIES THAT ARE DOING WELL LIKE THE
00:28:42CANADIAN ECONOMY HAVE THE FISCAL CAPACITY, THE FISCAL DISCIPLINE,
00:28:45TO SAY, WE'RE GOING TO SUPPORT.
00:28:46WE'VE ALREADY TAKEN A NUMBER OF
00:28:50MEASURES TO SUPPORT CANADIANS.
00:28:53BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THEY UNDERSTAND THAT WE NEED TO
00:28:55SUPPORT THEM NOW AND INVEST IN OUR FUTURE AND GROWTH,
00:28:58SUPPORTING SMALL AND MEDIUM
00:29:00SIZED BUSINESSES. THE PRODUCTIVITY MEGA DEDUCTION,
00:29:03YOU SEE WHENEVER YOU INVEST IN MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT, THAT'S THE BOOST.
00:29:07WE WANT TO CREATE AN INVESTMENT SUPER CYCLE TO HELP BUSINESSES
00:29:10LIKE YOURS AND I WAS ALSO TALKING ABOUT THOSE, YOU KNOW,
00:29:14WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN THERE FOR INDUSTRIES AND SECTORS, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE IN THE AUTO
00:29:17INDUSTRY TODAY. IT'S DIFFICULT. STEEL, ALUMINUM, FORESTRY
00:29:20SECTOR, WE'VE ANNOUNCED A NUMBER OF MEASURES.
00:29:23BUT I WANT TO SAY THAT CLEARLY, WE'RE GOING TO THINK ABOUT
00:29:26AFFORDABILITY WHERE CANADIANS ARE AND HOW WE HAVE BEEN THERE FOR THEM.
00:29:30AND AT THE SAME TIME, MAKING
00:29:33SURE WE BUILD THE FUTURE IN TERMS OF GROWTH AND TALK ALSO
00:29:37ABOUT OUR SOVEREIGNTY AND SO I
00:29:39THINK CANADIANS, LIKE YOU, WILL
00:29:42SEE THEMSELVES IN THIS BUDGET,
00:29:44SEE THAT CANADA IS A COUNTRY
00:29:47WHICH IS -- THE TITLE FROM YOU WAS VERY PROFOUND WHEN WE CHOSE
00:29:50THAT.
00:29:51I COME FROM SHAWINIGAN.
00:29:54WE KNOW THAT WHEN ENERGY AND
00:29:58AMBITION MEETS TOGETHER YOU DO GREAT THINGS. THAT'S THE ESSENCE, WE WANT TO
00:30:01BE MASTERS OF OUR DESTINY AND IN ORDER TO DO THAT, YOU NEED TO
00:30:04INVEST IN GROWTH AND TAKE CARE OF PEOPLE AND YOU ALSO NEED TO
00:30:07PROTECT YOUR SOVEREIGNTY. I THINK TOMORROW CANADIANS WILL
00:30:10SEE THEMSELVES IN THAT BUDGET.
00:30:13>> Reporter: ON THE U.S. MID-TERMS, DO THE RESULTS
00:30:16STRENGTHEN CANADA'S NEGOTIATING POSITION? >> WELL, WE WOULD SAY AS YOU
00:30:19MIGHT APPRECIATE, MY FOCUS IS
00:30:21VERY MUCH ON THE BUDGET, AND THE
00:30:23TITLE OF THE BUDGET FOR ME IS VERY PROFOUND IN TERMS OF WHEN
00:30:27YOU SAY MASTERS OF OUR DESTINY.
00:30:30WHATEVER HAPPENS SOUTH OR SOMEWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD, WE
00:30:33NEED TO BE MORE RESILIENT, MORE INDEPENDENT.
00:30:35WE NEED TO OPEN UP NEW MARKETS.
00:30:39WE NEED TO BUILD ONE ECONOMY AND BUY CANADIAN.
00:30:42WE'RE GOING TO BE ON A STRONG
00:30:45FOOTING REGARDLESS BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE KIND OF INVESTMENTS THAT
00:30:48WE NEED TO MAKE, AND A STRONG CANADA IS A BETTER CANADA.
00:30:51AT ANY NEGOTIATING TABLE.
00:30:55BECAUSE WE HAVE THE STRENGTH TO INVEST AND WE HAVE THE
00:30:57DISCIPLINE TO DELIVER ON THE SAME -- I THINK CANADIANS HAVE
00:31:01SEEN WE LIVE IN A VERY VOLATILE,
00:31:04VERY COMPLEX ENVIRONMENT. AND STRENGTHENING WHO WE ARE,
00:31:08CELEBRATING WHO WE ARE AS CANADIANS, I THINK THAT'S WHAT
00:31:09PEOPLE WANT TO SEE NOW.
00:31:12>> AArti: WE'VE BEEN LISTENING
00:31:15THERE TO FINANCE MINISTER FRANCOIS-PHILLIPE CHAMPAGNE SPEAKING IN MONTRÉAL, PLAYING
00:31:19OUT THAT TRADITION THAT TAKES PLACE THE DAY BEFORE THE BUDGET
00:31:22IS UNVEILED WHERE HE IS GETTING A NEW PAIR OF SHOES.
00:31:25I WANT TO BRING IN ONCE AGAIN THE CBC'S OLIVIA STEFANOVICH.
00:31:28SHE HAS BEEN LISTENING IN. A REAL FOCUS ON AFFORDABILITY,
00:31:32EVEN WHEN ASKED A QUESTION ABOUT THOSE U.S. MIDTERM ELECTIONS,
00:31:35SAYING, WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT WE CAN DO HERE AT HOME.
00:31:38BUT, OF COURSE, ALSO HELP FOR SECTORS THAT HAVE BEEN IMPACTED
00:31:42BY THE TARIFFS HERE FROM THE FINANCE MINISTER OR WHAT MIGHT
00:31:44WE BE ABLE TO LOOK AHEAD TO FOR TOMORROW? >> Reporter: WELL, ANOTHER BIG
00:31:48WORD THAT STOOD OUT TO ME WHILE THE FINANCE MINISTER WAS
00:31:52SPEAKING THERE WAS "SOVE "SOVEREIGNTY."
00:31:56THE FINANCE MINISTER, FRANCOIS-PHILLIPE CHAMPAGNE, SAYS WE CAN EXPECT A BUDGET
00:32:00TOMORROW, THE SECOND UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP AS FINANCE MINISTER AND PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY'S
00:32:04GOVERNMENT.
00:32:05WE CAN EXPECT A BUDGET THAT IS FOCUSED ON STRENGTHENING THE
00:32:09COUNTRY'S SOVEREIGNTY AND
00:32:12BECOMING LESS RELIANT ON OTHER
00:32:15COUNTRIES SUCH AS THE U.S. THE FINANCE MINISTER DIDN'T TALK
00:32:18A LOT THERE ABOUT THE U.S. OR
00:32:19THE MIDTERM RESULTS BUT IT IS
00:32:22CLEAR THAT NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS MOVING FORWARD BETWEEN
00:32:25CANADA AND THE U.S., EVEN IF WE GET AN AMAZING DEAL ON THE NEXT
00:32:28COUPLE OF WEEKS, AN AMAZING NEW TRADE DEAL, IT'S CLEAR THAT THE
00:32:32FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WANTS TO
00:32:33CONTINUE DOWN THIS PATH OF
00:32:36DIVERSIFYING ITS TRADING RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER
00:32:39COUNTRIES AND STRENGTHENING
00:32:42PARTNERSHIPS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES AS WELL BECAUSE THIS
00:32:45WHOLE EXPERIENCE WITH THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS FRANKLY BEEN
00:32:49A WAKE-UP CALL FOR OTTAWA THAT
00:32:51IT SHOWS THAT THE U.S. IS AN UNRELIABLE PARTNER AND AGAIN,
00:32:55EVEN IF THERE IS A DEAL IN THE COMING WEEKS OR MONTHS, AARTI,
00:32:58IT'S NOT CLEAR THAT THE U.S.
00:33:00ADMINISTRATION WILL ACTUALLY FOLLOW THROUGH AND RESPECT THAT
00:33:04DEAL MOVING FORWARD AS WELL. THAT'S STILL AN OPEN QUESTION MARK.
00:33:07SO YOU KNOW, THE BUDGET THAT I THINK WE ARE EXPECTING TOMORROW
00:33:11AS THE FINANCE MINISTER PREVIEWED THERE IS GOING TO BE
00:33:14FOCUSED ON WHAT CANADA CAN CONTROL MOVING FORWARD AND
00:33:17INVESTMENTS THAT CANADA CAN MAKE TO STRENGTHEN THE ECONOMY HERE,
00:33:21TO IMPROVE AFFORDABILITY FOR CANADIANS. THERE ARE STILL TARIFFS IN PLACE
00:33:25AND THERE'S NO INDICATION THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE COMPLETELY
00:33:28ELIMINATED OR EVEN REVERSED WITH THE MIDTERM RESULT LAST NIGHT.
00:33:31SO THE FOCUS ON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MOVING FORWARD IS HOW
00:33:35TO LOWER THE COSTS FOR CANADIANS AND ATTRACT MORE INVESTMENT
00:33:39WHILE THIS TRADE WAR CONTINUES WITH THE U.S. >> AArti: THANKS FOR THIS,
00:33:43OLIVIA. THAT IS THE CBC'S OLIVIA STEFANOVICH IN OTTAWA.
00:33:46>>> IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE ANYONE COULD SAY TEXAS IS
00:33:50SENDING A DEMOCRAT TO THE SENATE BUT NOW JAMES TALARICO BECOMES
00:33:54THE FIRST SINCE 1988.
00:33:57>> THIS WIN IS FOR EVERY TEXAN WHO'S EVER WONDERED IF ANYONE IS
00:34:00LISTENING.
00:34:05I HEARD YOU. WE HEARD YOU. TONIGHT THE WORLD HEARS YOU.
00:34:08[ Cheering and Applause ]
00:34:12>> AArti: HE DEFEATED REPUBLICAN
00:34:15KEN PAXTON 3 IN WHAT IS BEING
00:34:17CALLED THE MOST EXPENSIVE RACE. MORE THAN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS
00:34:20WERE POURED INTO THE CAMPAIGNS. IT'S A SEISMIC POLITICAL SHIFT
00:34:23FOR THE SECOND MOST POPULIST STATE UPENDING MORE THAN THREE
00:34:27DECADES OF REPUBLICAN CONTROL.
00:34:29TEXAS ALSO ELECTED A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR.
00:34:32STEVE FUTTERMAN JOINS US LIVE
00:34:36FROM AUSTIN. THANKS FOR COVERING THIS. WE KNOW THAT LOSING A DEEP RED
00:34:38STATE LIKE TEXAS IS A MAJOR
00:34:41REPUDIATION OF DONALD TRUMP. HOW SIGNIFICANT IS THIS? >> Reporter: IT'S VERY SIGNIFICANT.
00:34:45I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT SOME
00:34:50SYMBOLISM. YOU MIGHT SAY TEXAS TRADED ITS
00:34:52RUBY RED SLIPPERS FOR ELVIS' BLUE SUEDE SHOES.
00:34:56IT'S NOW SORT OF A BLUE STATE. IT WASN'T JUST TALARICO WINNING.
00:35:00IT WASN'T JUST THE GOVERNOR.
00:35:03GOVERNOR ELECT WINNING. YOU HAD THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, THE
00:35:06RAILROAD COMMISSIONER AND BY THE WAY THAT'S A VERY SIGNIFICANT
00:35:09JOB HERE IN TEXAS.
00:35:11SO TEXAS, WHICH HAD NOT ELECTED
00:35:15ANY STATEWIDE DEMOCRAT SINCE 1994 SUDDENLY HAS A WHOLE BUNCH
00:35:19OF THEM. OBVIOUSLY THE BIG STAR IN ALL OF
00:35:21THIS IS JAMES TALARICO, 37 YEARS OLD.
00:35:24HE DEFEATS KEN PAXTON WHO WAS DONALD TRUMP'S HAND PICKED
00:35:28CHOICE TO GO UP AGAINST HIM. THERE WILL BE SOME DEBATE ABOUT WHETHER THAT WAS A GOOD DECISION
00:35:32BY DONALD TRUMP. HE IS NOW THE SENATOR ELECT, COULD BE A BIG STAR IN THE
00:35:35FUTURE OF DEMOCRATIC POLITICS.
00:35:38THAT WAS HIM SPEAKING TO HIS
00:35:40SUPPORTING ADORING FANS LAST
00:35:42NIGHT. >> WE SAW IT IN THIS RACE.
00:35:46WE SAW IS IN EVERY BILLIONAIRE-FUNDED ATTACK AD.
00:35:49THE PEOPLE AT THE TOP DIVIDE US
00:35:51BY PARTY, BY RACE, BY GENDER, BY
00:35:54RELIGION, BY CULTURE, SO WE DON'T NOTICE THAT THEY ARE
00:35:57PICKING OUR POCKETS, THAT THEY
00:35:58ARE DEFUNDING OUR SCHOOLS, THAT
00:36:02THEY ARE GUTTING OUR HEALTHCARE
00:36:04BUT TONIGHT, WE SENT A CRYSTAL CLEAR MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE AT
00:36:08THE TOP: WE WILL NOT BE CONQUERED.
00:36:10[ Cheering ]
00:36:12>> Reporter: AND KEN PAXTON, WHO WAS A BIG ELECTION DENIER IN
00:36:162020, ONE OF DONALD TRUMP'S B
00:36:18BIGGEST SUPPORTERS, OFFERED A MILLION DOLLARS REWARD IF
00:36:22SOMEONE COULD COME UP WITH SOME PROOF. HE NEVER GAVE IT OUT.
00:36:25LAST NIGHT HE WAS NOT DENYING HE LOST.
00:36:28THIS WAS KEN PAXTON'S CONCESSION 1350E67.
00:36:31>> LET ME START OFF BY CONGRATULATING JAMES TALARICO.
00:36:35I WILL BE PRAYING FOR HIM THAT HE WILL DO GOOD FOR TEXAS AND
00:36:39THIS NATION. THIS IS A GREAT STATE.
00:36:41IT HAS THE GREATEST PEOPLE. I HAVE BEEN SO BLESSED TO HAVE
00:36:45PART OF THAT AND TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRY TO DO THE BEST I COULD, TO DO GOOD FOR
00:36:48TEXAS.
00:36:52>> Reporter: AFTERWARDS, GUESS
00:36:53WHERE JAMES TALARICO AND GINA
00:36:56HINOJOSA WENT TO HAVE THEIR INITIAL CELEBRATION?
00:36:59THEY WENT TO A WATER BURGER, VERY POPULAR FAST FOOD PLACE
00:37:02HERE IN TEXAS AND SURROUNDING
00:37:05STATES AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ORDERED BUT THEY WERE VERY HAPPY.
00:37:08I SHOULD POINT OUT THIS WAS THE
00:37:11MOST EXPENSIVE CAMPAIGN ELECTION RACE IN THE HISTORY OF THE U.S.
00:37:14OUTSIDE OF PRESIDENTIAL RACE.
00:37:16IT'S ESTIMATED THIS RACE HAD
00:37:18AROUND $600 MILLION SPENT ON IT. >> AArti: AS WE'VE BEEN
00:37:21DISCUSSING, STEVE, A HISTORIC
00:37:23RESULT IN THE STATE OF TEXAS.
00:37:26AND ALSO REBUKE OF DONALD TRUMP.
00:37:28THE FOUNDER OF THE MAGA MOVEMENT.
00:37:32SO WHAT THEN DOES THIS SAY ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THAT MOVEMENT WHEN
00:37:35WE SEE THE RESULTS IN TEXAS? >> Reporter: IT'S NOT GOING TO
00:37:38GO AWAY BUT IT'S BEEN SERIOUSLY DAMAGED.
00:37:41JAMES CARVILLE, BILL CLINTON'S
00:37:45GURU MANY YEARS SAID, THE ECONOMY, STUPID. THAT'S WHAT THIS CAME DOWN TO DO
00:37:48A LARGE EXTENT. YES, THERE WERE COMPLAINTS ABOUT
00:37:52LOTS OF THINGS TRUMP WAS DOING, THE TARIFFS, THE WAR IN IRAN. IT WAS INFLATION WAS THE KEY
00:37:56THING THAT BOTHERED PEOPLE AND WE SHOULD ALSO POINT OUT VERY
00:37:59LARGE HISPANIC TURNOUT HERE IN TEXAS.
00:38:03THIS ISSUE OF INFLATION, OF JUST
00:38:04THINGS NOT GOING RIGHT, IT ENERGIZED DEMOCRATS AND THEY
00:38:07CAME OUT TO VOTE IN LARGE NUMBERS. MAYBE LARGER THAN EXPECTED.
00:38:11ESPECIALLY HISPANICS. ESPECIALLY BLACK VOTERS. WE'LL SEE THIS, I THINK, AS WE
00:38:15TRY TO DISSECT WHY THIS ALL HAPPENED YESTERDAY, NOT JUST IN
00:38:18TEXAS BUT AROUND THE COUNTRY, THAT THE TURNOUT WILL BE A BIG
00:38:21ISSUE AND THE MINORITY VOTES WILL BE A BIG ISSUE. DONALD TRUMP'S MAGA MOVEMENT
00:38:25ISN'T OVER. IT'S BEEN DAMAGED.
00:38:28AND THEY'LL HAVE TO FIGURE OUT A NEW WAY TO GET THEIR POINT
00:38:32ACROSS AND THE DEMOCRATS, MEANWHILE, WILL HAVE TO FIGURE
00:38:34OUT A WAY TO NOW GOVERN SO, YES, THEY SAID WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO.
00:38:38LET'S SEE IF THEY CAN DO IT. ALWAYS THE TOUGHEST THING, AARTI, NOT TO WIN THE ELECTION,
00:38:42BUT TO GOVERN AFTER YOU DO WIN. >> AArti: THANKS FOR THIS, STEVE.
00:38:46THAT IS STEVE FUTTERMAN REPORTING FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS.
00:38:49>>> AS WE CONTINUE TO LOOK AT SOME OF THE HISTORIC MIDTERM
00:38:52ELECTION RESULTS, WE TAKE A LOOK AT MAINE.
00:38:55DEMOCRAT TROY JACKSON HAS ENDED INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN SENATOR
00:38:59SUSAN COLLINS' 30-YEAR TENURE. ITS A KEY WIN FOR THE DEMOCRATS
00:39:02AS THEY TAKE CONTROL OF THE
00:39:04SENATE AND IT ENDS A TIGHT RACE
00:39:07DEFINED BY VOTER FRUSTRATION OVER THE COST OF LIVING.
00:39:10I WANT TO BRING IN THE CBC'S
00:39:12MIKE CRAWLEY IN MAINE AND HE'S
00:39:15LOOKING AT THAT UPSET. MIKE, WHAT MORE CAN YOU TELL US
00:39:17ABOUT WHAT THIS MEANS FOR SUSAN COLLINS, FOR THE REPUBLICANS, AS
00:39:21WE SEE A DEMOCRAT IN THE SENATE?
00:39:24>> Reporter: YEAH, AARTI, A
00:39:26LITTLE BIT OF HISTORICAL CONTEXT
00:39:29HERE ABOUT HOW RARE IT IS THAT AN INCUMBENT SENATOR WITH THE
00:39:32KIND OF TENURE THAT SUSAN COLLINS HAS HAD, IF YOU LOOK
00:39:36BACK OVER THE LAST FIFTY YEARS,
00:39:39IT'S ONLY HAPPENED THREE TIMES BEFORE THAT AN INCUMBENT SENATOR
00:39:42WITH 30 YEARS OR MORE OF TIME IN
00:39:46THE SENATE HAS ACTUALLY LOST AN ELECTION IN THE U.S.
00:39:49SO SUSAN COLLINS IS IN MANY WAYS
00:39:52THE ULTIMATE POWER BROKER, AN INSIDER IN WASHINGTON.
00:39:56SHE IS A CHAIR OF THE SENATE
00:40:00APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE WHICH HANDLED THE PURSE STRINGS IN WASHINGTON.
00:40:03TROY JACKSON, THE MAN WHO DEFEATED HER, HE'S QUITE AN
00:40:07OUTSIDER. HE STARTED OUT HIS WORKING
00:40:10CAREER AS A LOGGER AND THEN A
00:40:13UNION ACTIVIST AND GOT INTO
00:40:15STATE POLITICS AND AS HE TOLD
00:40:18HIS SUPPORTERS LAST NIGHT, HE'S
00:40:21QUITE PROUD OF HIS WORKING CLASS ROOTS. >> I COULDN'T ACCEPT THAT
00:40:25WORKING PEOPLE COULD GIVE EVERYTHING THEY HAD AND STILL
00:40:29HAVE SO LITTLE TO SAY OVER THEIR OWN LIVES. SO WHEN THE COMPANIES KEPT
00:40:33PUSHING US AROUND, YOU KNOW, WE ORGANIZED, WE STOOD TOGETHER AND
00:40:36WE TRIED TO MAKE THEM LISTEN.
00:40:40AND TONIGHT, TONIGHT, YOU'VE GIVEN ME THE CHANCE ARE TO TAKE
00:40:43THAT 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.
00:40:53HE IS POISED TO BECOME THE ONLY
00:41:02AARTI? >> AArti: NOW, MIKE, TOO, OF COURSE, WE WERE DISCUSSING A LOT
00:41:05AHEAD OF THE U.S. MIDTERM
00:41:07ELECTIONS THAT SUSAN COLLINS HAS
00:41:10TRIED TO OFFER SOME ALLEVIATION FROM THE PRESSURE OF TARIFFS AND
00:41:13TRIED TO SHOW THAT SHE WOULD BE FIGHTING AGAINST THAT.
00:41:16IT DIDN'T SEEM TO HAVE WORKED THERE. BUT WHAT DOES THIS MEAN, THIS
00:41:19SHIFT IN POWER? WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE U.S.
00:41:22AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH CANADA?
00:41:25>> Reporter: YEAH, SO, YOU KNOW,
00:41:26IF YOU LOOKED LAST NIGHT ABOUT
00:41:31WHERE THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS
00:41:34LOST, YOU KNOW, YES, LIER A BLUE STATE IN MAINE BUT A LOT WAS THE
00:41:37RED STATES WHERE THE MESSAGE OF AFFORDABILITY WAS WHAT SEEMED TO
00:41:41RESONATE WITH PEOPLE. IT'S NOT CLEAR THAT DONALD TRUMP
00:41:43IS GOING TO TAKE ANY LESSONS AWAY FROM THIS LOSS.
00:41:46HE'S ALREADY TRYING TO DEFLECT BLAME.
00:41:49THE DEMOCRATS HAVE SAID THAT ONE
00:41:52OF THEIR FIRST TOP PRIORITIES
00:41:54WHEN THEY GET CONTROL OF
00:41:57CONGRESS IN JANUARY IS TO BRING FORWARD A BILL TO REPEAL THE
00:42:01TARIFFS. TRUMP, OF COURSE, RETAINS VETO
00:42:03POWER BUT IT DOES MEAN THAT THAT TRUMP TARIFF AGENDA IS GOING TO
00:42:07BE VERY MUCH FRONT AND CENTRE WHEN THE NEW CONGRESS GETS SWORN
00:42:09IN IN JANUARY.
00:42:13>> AArti: THANKS. THAT IS THE CBC'S MIKE CRAWLEY
00:42:16IN BANGOR, MAINE.
00:42:20>> AArti: WE WANT TO TAKE YOU TO PENNSYLVANIA WHERE THE DEMOCRATS PICKED UP FOUR SEATS.
00:42:24WE FIND THE CBC'S KRIS REYES.
00:42:28DEMOCRATS FLIPPED A KEY U.S. HOUSE SEAT WITH A WIN BY BOB BROOKS.
00:42:31WHAT HAPPENED WITH THAT? >> Reporter: LET'S START WITH THE NUMBERS, BECAUSE THIS IS HOW
00:42:34YOU TELL THE STORY. BECAUSE THE NUMBERS ARE SO STUNNING.
00:42:38SO AARTI, BOB BROOKS WON BY AT
00:42:41LEAST 35,000 VOTES. SO A TWELVE-POINT MARGIN.
00:42:45TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF HOW STUNNING THAT IS, THE CANDIDATE
00:42:48THAT HE BEAT, REPUBLICAN RYAN MCKENZIE, WHEN HE FLIPPED THIS
00:42:51DISTRICT RED IN THE LAST ELECTION, HE DID IT BY JUST A FEW THOUSAND VOTES.
00:42:55YOU DON'T REALLY WIN THIS
00:43:00DISTRICT BY A LANDSLIDE:IT'S
00:43:03VERY COMPETITIVE AND YOU EKE OUT A VICTORY.
00:43:06THIS BIG MAR GIN IS SOMETHING THAT WILL BE TALKED ABOUT FOR A
00:43:10LONG TIME. IN BOB BROOKS' VICTORY SPEECH, HE TOUCHED ON TOP OF THE
00:43:14MESSAGING THAT MAY HAVE GOTTEN HIM THAT BIG WIN.
00:43:17HE CALLED TRUMP'S TARIFFS RECKLESS. THE WAR IN IRAN POINTLESS.
00:43:21AND HE REALLY POINTED TO A LOT
00:43:24OF TRUMP'S POLICIES AS THE
00:43:26REASON WHY MANY PENNSYLVANIA NS
00:43:31ARE HAVING A HARD TIME. >> PEOPLE ARE HURTING. TONIGHT THEY SENT A CLEAR MESSAGE.
00:43:35IT'S TIME FOR THINGS TO CHANGE.
00:43:36[ Cheering ]
00:43:43D.C. IS GOING TO HEAR THIS MESSAGE LOUD AND CLEAR WHEN BOB
00:43:46BROOKS GETS TO TOWN.
00:43:49WE AREN'T GOING DOWN THERE TO TRY AND PIECE THINGS BACK TOGETHER THE WAY THEY WERE BEFORE.
00:43:53WE'RE GOING DOWN THERE TO SHAKE
00:43:54UP THE STATUS QUO, FIGHT FOR
00:43:59WORKING PEOPLE. >> Reporter: THAT OUTSIDER STATUS, AARTI, CLEARLY WORKED
00:44:03FOR HIM.
00:44:05HE IS A FIRST-TIME POLITICAL
00:44:09PARTY, HE USED TO BE A FIREFIGHTER, LANDSCAPER, BAR TENER.
00:44:12I LIST ALL OF THOSE JOBS BECAUSE
00:44:14HE SOLD HIMSELF TO VOTERS AS A
00:44:17MAN WHO UNDERSTANDS WORKING PEOPLE'S PROBLEMS AND CLEARLY
00:44:21THAT RESONATED WITH VOTERS HERE.
00:44:25>> AArti: AND DEMOCRATS SWEPT BATTLEGROUND PENNSYLVANIA WITH
00:44:28FOUR KEY HOUSE FLIPS. SO WHAT HAPPENED IN THOSE DISTRICTS? >> Reporter: THAT'S RIGHT.
00:44:32SO LET'S START AGAIN WITH NUMBERS, AARTI.
00:44:35HARD TO DENY THAT THIS WAS NOT A
00:44:38BLUWAVE ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA. SO FOR THOSE OTHER THREE
00:44:42DISTRICTS THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO
00:44:43BE COMPETITIVE THAT FLIPPED RED,
00:44:47IT WAS ALSO WON BY HUGE MARGINS.
00:44:51IT'S HARD NOT TO READ THAT AS ANYTHING BUT A FORCEFUL
00:44:54REJECTION OF TRUMP'S POLICIES
00:44:58AND REALLY TRUE TO THIS STATE
00:44:59AND THIS DISTRICT'S BELLWETHER
00:45:03REPU REPUTATION, THE BIG WINS HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA MIRROR THE BIG WINS
00:45:06FOR THE DEMOCRATS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
00:45:09>> AArti: KRIS, THANK YOU FOR THIS.
00:45:10THAT IS THE CBC'S KRIS REYES.
00:45:17>>> TRUMP HAS VETO POWERS AND
00:45:20OVERRIDING A PRESIDENTALITY VETO REQUIRES A TWO-THIRDS VOTE.
00:45:23HOW SHOULD DEMOCRATS NAVIGATE THE NEXT TWO YEARS WHILE TRUMP
00:45:27IS STILL IN POWER? WE HAVE REACHED FORMER
00:45:30DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVE JANE HARMON IN WASHINGTON.
00:45:32SHE IS THE CHAIR FOR THE U.S.-CANADA SECOND CENTURY COMMISSION. THANK YOU FOR MAKING TIME FOR US
00:45:36TODAY. >> THANK YOU.
00:45:39>> AArti: SO NOW, SEVERAL HOURS
00:45:41IN, HOW ARE YOU READING THE
00:45:44RESULTS THIS MORNING?
00:45:45>> WELL, IT'S A ROUTE OF THE
00:45:49MAJORITY PARTY, CLEARLY. AND A REFERENDUM ON PRESIDENT'S LEADERSHIP.
00:45:52THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.
00:45:55HE SAID HE WANTED TO THINK THAT
00:45:57HE WAS ON THE BALLOT AND I THINK THAT'S HOW VOTERS VOTED. THEY THOUGHT HE WAS ON THE BALLOT.
00:46:01AND THEY VOTED AGAINST HIM. THEY DIDN'T NECESSARILY VOTE FOR
00:46:04THE OTHER PARTY BUT THEY VOTED AGAINST THE PRESIDENT AND HIS
00:46:08AGENDA AND I HAVE TO IMAGINE
00:46:11THAT FOLKS IN CANADA ARE
00:46:13CHEERING THIS RESULT BECAUSE
00:46:15THIS PRESIDENT, UNFORTUNATELY,
00:46:18UNDID SO MUCH OF THE POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP WE HAVE HAD, WE,
00:46:21THE U.S., HAVE HAD WITH CANADA FOR MY LIFETIME.
00:46:24YOU KNOW, THEM THINKING OPERATION YELLOW RIBBON,
00:46:28INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION AND DEFENCE COOPERATION AND SHARED
00:46:32MANUFACTURING OF AUTOMOBILES AND OTHER THINGS.
00:46:33I TOOK THESE FOR GRANTED AND I
00:46:38NEVER IMAGINED THAT THE COMMENTS AND POLICIES OF THIS PRESIDENT
00:46:42WOULD BE WHAT THEY APPARENTLY WERE AND ARE.
00:46:45>> AArti: WHEN WE DO TALK ABOUT THE VETO POWERS THAT DONALD
00:46:47TRUMP IS SUGGESTING HE WILL USE MORE FREQUENTLY IF NEEDED, GIVEN
00:46:51THAT THERE HAS BEEN A SHIFT IN THE BALANCE OF POWER.
00:46:53HOW PRECISELY MIGHT THAT WORK HERE?
00:46:56AND IN PARTICULAR, IF WE'RE LOOKING AT THINGS LIKE THE
00:46:59REMOVAL OF SOME OF THE TARIFFS.
00:47:03>> HE SAID YESTERDAY, HE KIND OF WALKED THAT BACK.
00:47:06AND SAID, WELL, HE DIDN'T WANT TO JUST VETO THINGS FOR HIS LAST
00:47:10TWO YEARS.
00:47:21I THINK THE REPUBLICANS WHO REMAIN HAVE LOST THEIR FEAR OF THIS PRESIDENT.
00:47:25HE IS GENUINELY A LAME DUCK. THEY WANT TO SHOW SOME ACCOMPLISHMENT.
00:47:29I'M GUESSING THAT NOT JUST WHEN THE DEMOCRATS TAKE OVER IN
00:47:31JANUARY BUT RIGHT NOW, WHEN THE
00:47:33SO-CALLED LAME DUCK SESSION STARTS, THAT THEY WILL JOIN WITH
00:47:37DEMOCRATS ON A FEW THINGS THAT
00:47:39WILL BE ENORMOUSLY HELPFUL,
00:47:41TRYING TO REPEAL THE TARIFFS
00:47:44WOULD BE A START. CERTAINLY THAT RESONATES WITH
00:47:47HOW VOTERS VOTED, AS YOUR PRIOR COMMENTATOR SAID.
00:47:51IT WAS THE ECONOMY, STUPID. AND THAT'S HOW THEY VOTED.
00:47:54BUT I WOULD ALSO HOPE THEY WOULD
00:47:57USE THEIR LEADERSHIP ON WAR
00:48:01POWERS AND AUTHORIZATION TO USE MILITARY FORCE TO REIN IN
00:48:04ACTIVITIES IN IRAN WHICH HAVE CAUSED THIS HUGE SPIKE IN ENERGY
00:48:08PRICES AND ALSO TO RESTORE THE
00:48:11PLEDGE, THE UNITED STATES PLEDGE, IN SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE.
00:48:14THESE REALLY MATTER TO MOST
00:48:16AMERICANS, CERTAINLY TO ME. >> AArti: WHEN WE DO TALK ABOUT
00:48:20WHAT THE DEMOCRATS MAY DO NEXT,
00:48:23GIVEN HOW HISTORIC THIS SHIFT
00:48:25HAS BEEN IN TERMS OF POWER IN WASHINGTON, WHAT SHOULD THEIR
00:48:29NEXT STEPS BE? CERTAINLY THERE ARE SOME LEGAL
00:48:32AVENUES THAT HAVE BEEN DISCUSSIONS AROUND PURSUING THEM.
00:48:34DO YOU THINK THAT'S THE RIGHT MOVE?
00:48:38>> WELL, I DON'T THINK IT'S THE WRONG MOVE.
00:48:41BUT IT'S ONLY PART OF WHAT
00:48:44DEMOCRATS SHOULD DO. DEMOCRATS NEED TO GOVERN, NOT
00:48:47JUST INVESTIGATE. IF ALL WE'RE DOING IS THE
00:48:51OPPRESSOR CHANGING PLACES WITH THE OPPRESSOR, I THINK THAT IS A
00:48:54SPIRAL DOWN AND THEN WE'LL HAVE A REPEAT OF THIS IN TWO YEARS BECAUSE VOTERS WILL THROW OUT
00:48:58THE DEMOCRATS.
00:49:01AND LET'S GOVERN THE COUNTRY. LET'S RESTORE THE POWERS OF CONGRESS.
00:49:04IT'S THE ARTICLE 1 BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT.
00:49:06I SERVED THERE FOR NINE TERMS.
00:49:10IT'S A LONG TIME. THROUGH 9/11.
00:49:13AGAIN, KUDOS TO CANADA FOR BEING
00:49:16OUR PARTNER ON 9/11. I DON'T FORGET. OUR PRESIDENT MAY FORGET.
00:49:20HE MAY FORGET THE ROLE OF NATO ON 9/11.
00:49:22BUT I DON'T FORGET THAT.
00:49:27AND I THINK THAT THERE IS AN
00:49:30ENORMOUS OPPORTUNITY TO RESTORE
00:49:32A LOT OF THE SOFT POWER AND
00:49:35FRIENDSHIP THAT WE HAVE HAD WITH CANADA FOR A CENTURY.
00:49:38THAT'S WHY I CO-CHAIR THIS SECOND CENTURY COMMISSION WITH
00:49:41LISA RAITT, A FORMER
00:49:44PARLIAMENTARIAN AND ADVISOR IN THE HARPER ADMINISTRATION IN
00:49:47CANADA AND WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS FIND A WAY FORWARD,
00:49:51PRODUCTIVE WAY FORWARD, FOR BOTH
00:49:52OF OUR COUNTRIES, TO BUILD,
00:49:55REBUILD A RELATIONSHIP THAT BENEFITS BOTH OF US. IT WAS THERE.
00:49:58IT NEEDS TO BE THERE AGAIN. >> AArti: AS YOU MENTION, THE
00:50:01FORMER CONSERVATIVE CABINET MINISTER, LISA RAITT, CERTAINLY
00:50:04SHE IS ALSO A PART OF THE PRIME
00:50:06MINISTER'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON
00:50:09CANADA-U.S. ECONOMIC RELATIONS AS WELL. AND THIS BINATIONAL COMMISSION
00:50:13ON THE FUTURE OF CANADA-U.S. RELATIONS THAT YOU BOTH
00:50:16CO-CHAIR, I'M WONDERING, HOW DO
00:50:17YOU IMAGINE THOSE CONVERSATIONS
00:50:20MAY CHANGE NOW ON WHAT THE PATH FORWARD LOOKS LIKE?
00:50:24WE DO NOTE, OF COURSE, THAT IT'S THE EXECUTIVE LEVEL OF
00:50:26GOVERNMENT THAT IS HAVING THESE DISCUSSIONS WHEN IT COMES TO
00:50:30TRADE TALKS, FOR EXAMPLE.
00:50:31SO DOES THIS REALLY SIGNIFY
00:50:37THERE COULD BE A CHANGE ON THAT FRONT?
00:50:41>> ABSOLUTELY IT CAN BE.
00:50:43OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT HAS THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT,
00:50:46SEPARATIONS OF POWER, ARTICLE 11 CONGRESS.
00:50:48ARTICLE 2 IS THE EXECUTIVE. ARTICLE 3 IS THE COURTS.
00:50:52SO CONGRESS HAS DISAPPEARED IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.
00:50:54IT'S NOT ALL THE REPUBLICANS' FAULT. THE BLAME GAME IS SHARED ON BOTH
00:50:57SIDES.
00:51:00BUT THE EXECUTIVE, SINCE 9/11,
00:51:02HAS BEEN OPERATING UNDER WHAT'S
00:51:04CALLED THE YOUUNITARY AND ALL F
00:51:14PRESIDENTS HAVE XANED THE POWERS
00:51:16AND THAT POWER HAS NOT BEEN
00:51:20CHECKED BY THAT.
00:51:22WES UNFORTUNATELY DONE A LOT OF
00:51:25SELF-INFLICTED DAMAGE AND OUR COMMISSION, I'M SURE, WILL
00:51:28ADDRESS THIS THIS AND WILL ADDRESS STEPS THAT CANADA CAN
00:51:32TAKE TOO IN TERMS OF GOVERNMENTAL REFORMS. I'M A BIG FAN, BY THE WAY, OF
00:51:36MARK CARNEY. I THINK HE KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS.
00:51:38HE'S BOLD IN HIS LEADERSHIP.
00:51:40AND HIS LEADERSHIP IS FOR
00:51:43CANADA, NOT JUST PERSONAL, AND
00:51:46FOR HIMSELF, HIS FAMILY AND HIS
00:51:48CIRCLE OF FRIENDS.
00:51:52>> AArti: MS. HARMAN, I WANT TO
00:51:55THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AND
00:51:56SHARING YOUR THOUGHTS.
00:51:59THAT IS JANE HARMAN, A FORMER DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVE.
00:52:02>>> THE WAR IN IRAN WHICH HAS
00:52:05DRIVEN UP COSTS INCLUDING GAS AND DIESEL WAS A MAJOR THEME IN THE MID-TERMS AND PLAYED TO THE
00:52:09FAVOUR OF DEMOCRATS. THAT INCLUDES ABDUL EL-SAYED WHO
00:52:13WON A SENATE SEAT IN MICHIGAN.
00:52:14HE CAMPAIGNED ON IT AND WARNED
00:52:17OF A POSSIBLE ESCALATION AFTER THE MID-TERMS. HOW LIKELY IS THAT NOW?
00:52:21LET'S BRING IN THE CBC'S CRYSTAL GOOMANSINGH TRACKING THAT STORY
00:52:24FOR US FROM JERUSALEM. HOW COULD THE OUTCOME OF THE
00:52:27U.S. MIDTERM ELECTIONS AFFECT
00:52:29THE ESCALATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST?
00:52:32>> Reporter: WELL, EVERYONE'S
00:52:34REALLY WAITING TO SEE EXACTLY
00:52:38WHAT WILL HAPPEN AND A BIG QUESTION MARK IS ON U.S.
00:52:41PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF. HE IS AN UNPREDICTABLE LEADER SO
00:52:44NO ONE IS ENTIRELY SURE.
00:52:46WE DO KNOW HE HAS PREVIOUSLY IF
00:52:52HE RESUMES ATTACKS ON IRAN, IT COULD HAPPEN AFTER THE MID-TERMS.
00:52:55HE HAS ALSO SAID THAT HE'S IN NO RUSH TO RESUME THOSE ATTACKS.
00:52:59SO WE REALLY DON'T KNOW.
00:53:01WHAT WE ARE UNDERSTANDING, BASED
00:53:03ON REPORTS FROM THE REUTERS NEWS
00:53:06AGENCY, WHICH HAS INTERVIEWED
00:53:08TWO SOURCES INSIDE TEHRAN, THEY ARE SAYING THAT THEY ARE ON A
00:53:12HEIGHTENED SENSE OF ALERT, THAT
00:53:14THERE IS SOME CONCERN THAT THE U.S. PRESIDENT COULD SEEK
00:53:18COMPENSATION FOLLOWING THOSE
00:53:20DEMOCRATIC VICTORIES AND RESUME ATTACKS ON IRAN.
00:53:24WE ARE HEARING SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN TERMS OF TONE FROM
00:53:27THE SUPREME LEADER, AYATOLLAH
00:53:34KHOMEINI THAT WAS READ ON IRANIAN TELEVISION.
00:53:36HE HAS SAID THAT THE CHANGE DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE WHEN
00:53:40IT COMES TO U.S. AGGRESSION
00:53:42AGAINST IRAN, THAT HE SAYS ANY
00:53:45SORT OF STRIKE WOULD RESULT IN A
00:53:48STRONG RETALIATION AND HE HAS
00:53:50ALSO SAID THAT U.S. BASES RIGHT
00:53:53ACROSS THE REGION COULD BE AT RISK IF THE UNITED STATES
00:53:56RESUMES THOSE STRIKES.
00:53:58WE DO KNOW THAT THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT
00:54:02THE WAR DID PLAY A ROLE IN THE
00:54:07VOTES AGAINST REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. HE SAID THAT TO THE "WALL STREET
00:54:10JOURNAL" 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
00:54:19UNDERSTOOD THE IMPORTANCE OF WHETHER AN I'VE DONE WITH IRAN.
00:54:21I THINK HISTORICALLY IT'S GOING
00:54:24TO BE MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN THIS EVENING BECAUSE YOU CAN'T
00:54:28LET THE NUMBER ONE STATE SPONSOR OF TERROR HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON.
00:54:31IT'S THE MOST DANGEROUS COUNTRY IN THE WORLD AND WE WIPED THEM
00:54:33OUT PRACTICALLY.
00:54:38>> Reporter: THE NUCLEAR QUESTION IS ONE THAT REMAINS AND
00:54:41IT WAS JUST A FEW DAYS AGO WHEN THE PRESIDENT SAID THAT THERE
00:54:45ARE STILL A FEW SITES THAT COULD BE HIT.
00:54:48SO ALL EYES ARE ON THE NEXT
00:54:51COUPLE OF DAYS AND IF THE U.S. PRESIDENT WILL RESUME THOSE ATTACKS, AARTI.
00:54:55>> AArti: THANKS FOR THIS, CRYSTAL.
00:54:56THAT'S THE CBC'S CRYSTAL
00:54:59GOOMANSINGH IN JERUSALEM.
00:55:00>>> THERE HAS ALSO BEEN A MAJOR
00:55:04UPSET FOR THE REPUBLICANS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
00:55:06ANNIE ANDREWS IS THE STATE'S FIRST DEMOCRATIC SENATOR IN MORE
00:55:09THAN A QUARTER CENTURY. >> WE HERE IN SOUTH CAROLINA
00:55:12SENT A CLEAR MESSAGE THAT THIS
00:55:14SENATE SEAT DOES NOT BELONG TO ONE FAMILY, ONE PARTY OR TO
00:55:18WASHINGTON D.C. [ Cheering ]
00:55:21>> AArti: ANDREWS IS ALSO THE FIRST WOMAN TO BE ELECTED
00:55:24SENATOR IN THE STATE'S HISTORY.
00:55:26SHE WAS UP AGAINST INCUMBENT SENATOR DARLINE GRAHAM WHO WAS
00:55:29APPOINTED FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF HER BROTHER, LINDSEY GRAHAM.
00:55:32ANDREWS RAN A CAMPAIGN ON HEALTHCARE, AFFORDABILITY AND
00:55:35CRITICIZED DONALD TRUMP FOR THE WAR ON IRAN'S IMPACT ON GAS
00:55:38PRICES.
00:55:42>> WE CELEBRATE A
00:55:46VICTORY-FOR-ANYONE, LEFT, RIGHT, OR CENTRE, STRUGGLING WITH THE HIGH COST OF LIVING FROM GAS TO
00:55:50GROCERIES TO HOUSING. ANYONE WHO'S SICK OF THE TARIFFS, ENDLESS WAR, TAX BREAKS
00:55:53FOR BIG CORPORATIONS PAID FOR BY CUTS TO YOUR HEALTHCARE, ANYONE
00:55:56WHO'S FED UP WITH THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN OUR HISTORY WHO HAS FAILED IN HIS WAY OF
00:56:00GOVERNING. >> AArti: NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRAT
00:56:04CHRIS POPIS IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED TO THE U.S. SENATE.
00:56:07HE DEFEATED FORMER SENATOR JOHN
00:56:13SUNUNU. HE HAS PLEDGED TO FIGHT FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AND FOR THE CREATION OF DATA CENTRES.
00:56:17HE CALLED HIS WIN A VICTORY OVER
00:56:19THE BROKEN STATUS QUO YOU ARE
00:56:24LOOKING NOW LIVE AT CAPITOL HILL IN WASHINGTON.
00:56:27THE HALLS OF THAT BUILDING WILL LOOK VERY DIFFERENT COME
00:56:31JANUARY. DEMOCRATS TOOK CONTROL OF BOTH THE U.S. HOUSE AND SENATE IN
00:56:34LAST NIGHT'S MIDTERM ELECTIONS.
00:56:36NOW, THE PARTY SCORED KEY VICTORIES IN TRADITIONAL
00:56:40REPUBLICAN STATES LIKE TEXAS,
00:56:42KANSAS, IOWA AND SOUTH CAROLINA. U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAYS
00:56:46HE IS LIKELY TO VETO MANY
00:56:49DEMOCRATIC INITIATIVES BUT ALSO THAT HE ACCEPTS THE RESULTS.
00:56:53WE'LL CONTINUE TO COVER THIS STORY FOR YOU.
00:56:55WE'VE ALSO HEARD FROM CANADA'S MINISTER ON CANADA-U.S. TRADE
00:56:58WHO SAYS THAT IT IS AN IMPORTANT MOMENT FOR THE COUNTRY, BUT THAT
00:57:02THEY CONTINUE THEIR TALKS TO
00:57:05DEAL WITH TRADE AND CONTINUE WITH THEIR PRIORITIES AND THEY
00:57:07WILL WATCH TO SEE HOW THINGS EVOLVE.
00:57:11YOU'RE WATCHING CBC NEWS NETWORK. >> Announc
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01:00:23>> Aarti: Hello, welcome inside the CBC Newsroom.
01:00:26I'm Aarti Pole. Americans voted for change in a
01:00:28big way in yesterday's mid-term elections.
01:00:31A historic blue wave landed Democrats in control of both the
01:00:34house and the senate delivering a stunning rebuke of U.S.
01:00:38President Donald Trump. senate seats in deep red states
01:00:42like Texas, Kansas and South Carolina flipped.
01:00:45Here now is a live look at Washington this hour.
01:00:47Democrats will take control of congress in January.
01:00:51They only required three seats to win the house, so far they
01:00:54have picked up more than two dozen. But it could take days until all
01:00:58the races are decided.
01:01:00But it's the senate where the
01:01:02Democrats made a landmark breakthrough winning seven seats
01:01:06from the Republicans, all toss ups going their way and
01:01:10Democrats could win more building on that senate
01:01:13majority. First, we want to begin our coverage this morning with Mark
01:01:17Carcasole in Washington looking
01:01:18at the big picture for us. Control of congress shifting to
01:01:22the Democrats. And he begins with what this
01:01:25might mean going forward, specifically what Democrats do
01:01:28now with this power. >> Reporter: Well, there are
01:01:31many options, many powers before them, Aarti, but whether they
01:01:35can properly exercise them, that's another question. There's a lot of potential for
01:01:38them to create some real change, if essentially everything goes
01:01:42their way and then there's a lot of potential for them to kind of
01:01:46deadlock congress and either way, that is a strategy in itself.
01:01:49Now that they have full control of congress and the house and
01:01:52the senate, the Democrats have the power to pass their own legislation.
01:01:56However, anything they do pass has to receive presidential approval.
01:02:00That in itself is a hurdle.
01:02:02We will get more into that aspect in a little bit.
01:02:05They have the power to block any Republican legislation that
01:02:09comes their way and that is where I talk about the strategy
01:02:12of them bogging things down in congress. That is one potential thing that
01:02:16they can look at. In addition to those legislative
01:02:19powers, the Democrats also now have the ability to launch
01:02:22investigations against the president and his associates,
01:02:25subject them to congressional oversight. President Trump's family members
01:02:28are expected to at some point come under congressional oversighing.
01:02:32His sons don junior and Eric,
01:02:35his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, their business and politic
01:02:38Altice all likely scrutinized much more closely now.
01:02:42California representative Robert Garcia, who's expected to
01:02:45eventually become chair of the house oversight committee made
01:02:48it clear that's a priority to him.
01:02:50Yesterday on X, he posted a
01:02:56simple capitalized to word tweet. When he told President Trump and
01:02:58his associates quote, lawyer up.
01:03:01Now with the powers before them,
01:03:03with the landscape ahead of
01:03:05them, Hakeem Jeffries who is set to be the next speaker of the
01:03:09house A New York representative, the first black person in
01:03:12history to become house speaker says that the Democrats have a
01:03:15lot of plans, they have a wide agenda.
01:03:19He spoke to CNN late this morning talking about exactly
01:03:22what's on that Democrat agenda.
01:03:25>> We have a responsibility to
01:03:28govern on affordability, to
01:03:29lower the high cost of all the
01:03:33things -- the high cost of groceries, the high cost of housing, the high cost of gas,
01:03:36we're going to fight to make
01:03:38health care affordable for every
01:03:41single American so that people
01:03:43can actually afford to go see a
01:03:46doctor when they need one. >> Reporter: So given out --
01:03:49given some of the factors that I've laid out already, there's
01:03:52some immediate difficulty there. There's also the fact that the
01:03:56Democrats don't take control of congress until January, and so
01:03:59the Republicans who currently control congress have
01:04:02essentially two months to do what they need to do. Americans will certainly be
01:04:06watching closely to see what they do with that. There's also the fact that
01:04:09President Trump retains executive power and that he can
01:04:12governor by executive order. We've seen him do that multiple
01:04:16times over the first two years of this term where he can launch
01:04:20an executive order and skirt around congress to get done what he wants to get done.
01:04:23Case in point, the tariffs against Canada and other countries.
01:04:27The trade war. All of that came from executive
01:04:29orders.
01:04:47THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO SOFTEN OR COMPLETELY GET RID OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S TARIFFS.
01:04:51THEY'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR SOME TIME.
01:04:54THERE'S SOME SYMBOLISTIC BILLS IF YOU WILL WHICH THEY KNEW
01:04:58PROBABLY WOULDN'T PASS, BUT THEY WERE PUT OUT THERE JUST TO SHOW
01:05:01A SYMBOL OF THEIR INTENT AND ALSO WITHIN THE LAST WEEK OR SO,
01:05:05JUST LAST WEEKEND, SENATOR RON
01:05:09WIDEN TOLD REPORTERS, QUOTE, ONE OF THE MOST OBVIOUS PRIORITIES
01:05:12WOULD BE REPEALING TRUMP'S TARIFFS ON CANADA RAISING PRICES
01:05:16AND HARMING COMMUNITIES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER.
01:05:18NOW HE'S THE OTHER WRINKLE. PRESIDENT TRUMP STILL RETAINS
01:05:22VETO POWER AND EVEN THOUGH THEY CONTROL CONGRESS NOW, THE
01:05:25DEMOCRATS DO NOT HAVE THE TWO-THIRDS SUPERMAJORITY
01:05:28REQUIRED TO GET AROUND VETO. UNLESS, OF COURSE, THEY CAN GET
01:05:31SOME REPUBLICANS ON THEIR SIDE IN THESE CRUCIAL VOTES TO GET
01:05:35AROUND THAT VETO, GET TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY.
01:05:39NOW IT IS CONCEIVABLE THAT SOME
01:05:43REPUBLICANS MIGHT DO THAT GIVEN THESE WITH AFFORDABILITY AND
01:05:45COST OF LIVING MEASURES AND THAT WAS SUCH AN IMPORTANT PRIORITY
01:05:48FOR VOTERS IN THESE MID-TERMS.
01:05:50SO WE'LL SEE HOW REPUBLICANS VOTE THERE.
01:05:54PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR HIS PART
01:05:56KNOWS THAT HE HAS A VETO POWER
01:05:58AND MADE IT CLEAR ON FOX NEWS LAST NIGHT HE PLANS TO USE IT.
01:06:02>> President Donald Trump:
01:06:03IT'S BEEN DONE BEFORE AS YOU KNOW NUMEROUS TIMES.
01:06:07IT'S A VETO POWER.
01:06:08ONE OF THE STRONGER POWERS THE
01:06:13PRESIDENT HAS. AFTER A COUPLE OF MONTHS OF
01:06:16VETOs, THEY'LL CALL AND SAY HOW DO WE GET THIS STUFF DONE
01:06:20AND 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
01:06:26LOST CONGRESS HE WOULD TURN INTO Mr. VETO. PERHAPS LAST NIGHT ON SOCIAL
01:06:30MEDIA WE SAW THE FIRST SIGN OF
01:06:32THAT TRANSITION WITH THIS PHOTO,
01:06:34A RED MAGA STYLE BALL CAP.
01:06:39THE WORDS EMBROIDERED ON IT IN CAPITAL LETTERS VETO.
01:06:43WE DON'T KNOW IF WE'LL HERE FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP TODAY.
01:06:46THE OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE ITINERARY SAYS HE HAS NO PUBLIC
01:06:49EVENTS SCHEDULED.
01:06:50>> Aarti: THE CBC'S MARK CARCASOLE IN WASHINGTON.
01:06:54WE TAKE TO YOU THE ONTARIO LEGISLATURE IN TORONTO AS YOU CAN SEE PREMIER DOUG FORD IS
01:06:58SPEAKING ABOUT THE U.S. MIDTERM
01:07:02WHEELS. >> Premier Doug Ford: IF YOU'VE EVER SEEN A BIG GUY LIKE
01:07:06ME DOING CARTWHEELS, JUMPING UP AND DOWN WHEN THE RESULTS CAME IN.
01:07:10THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SPOKE. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SPOKE OP A COUPLE OF ISSUES.
01:07:14COST OF LIVING. COST OF GAS. THE WAR IN IRAN, BUT MOST
01:07:18IMPORTANT HIS TARIFFS. THAT'S ALL TIED IN THE COST OF LIVING AND WHEN I WAS DOWN
01:07:22THERE, VOICING OUR OPINION, NO MATTER IF IT'S WITHIN THE U.S.
01:07:25MEDIA OR GOING FACE-TO-FACE WITH
01:07:28GOVERNORS, A TARIFF ON CANADAS
01:07:31WITH NOTHING MORE THAN A TAX ON
01:07:37AMERICAN PEOPLE. WHETHER IT WAS MICHIGAN, OHIO,
01:07:40NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, TEXAS, THEY SPOKE LOUD
01:07:44AND CLEAR AND I'M HAPPY ABOUT TEXAS AS WELL.
01:07:46IF THAT GOVERNOR, I'LL TELL YOU,
01:07:49HE DIDN'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH CANADA EVEN THOUGH WE WERE THE SECOND LARGEST TRADING
01:07:53PARTNER HE HAS IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.
01:07:55WE DO OVER $30 BILLION OF TRADE
01:07:57WITH TEXAS.
01:07:59SO I'M DIRECTING OUR MINISTERS AS SOON AS EVERYONE GETS SWORN
01:08:04IN, GO DOWN TO WASHINGTON. CONNECT WITH THE SENATORS, THE
01:08:07CONGRESS PEOPLE AND, OF COURSE, I'LL BE TALKING TO THE GOVERNORS.
01:08:11AND SEEING HOW WE CAN MOVE FORWARD, BUT LET'S BE UNDER NO
01:08:14ILLUSION. THIS TRADE WAR IS DONE. IT'S NOT DONE.
01:08:18IT'S NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING DONE BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT STILL
01:08:21HAS THE POWER, THE JANUARY
01:08:24TARIFFS ARE STILL ON THE TABLE. SO WE HAVE TO GET OUT THERE,
01:08:28COMMUNICATE, AND TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, AS
01:08:31I'VE ALWAYS SAID YOU CAN'T
01:08:34UNSCRAMBLE AN EGG THAT'S BEEN AROUND FOR DECADES ESPECIALLY IN
01:08:37THE AUTO SECTOR SINCE 1965.
01:08:39WE HAVE TO MAKE THE OMELETTE LARGER. WE'RE THE LARGEST CUSTOMER.
01:08:43WE BUY 400% MORE CARS OFF THE
01:08:46AMERICANS THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD. BUT WHAT WE WANT TO DO AND I KNOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, IT'S
01:08:50NOT JUST A VICTORY FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE U.S., I THINK IT'S
01:08:54A VICTORY ACROSS THE WORLD AND MOST IMPORTANTLY IT'S A VICTORY
01:08:57FOR THE PEOPLE OF CANADA. THEY PLAYED A STRONG VOICE.
01:09:00IT WASN'T JUST MYSELF.
01:09:02IT WAS ORGANISATIONS, SECTORS,
01:09:05PREMIERS, ELECTED OFFICIALS AT
01:09:08ALL THREE LEVELS BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS AND ESPECIALLY
01:09:11WITH THE NEW ELECTED PEOPLE THAT THE AMERICANS ELECTED, WE'RE
01:09:14GOING TO BE DOWN THERE COMMUNICATING, BUILDING THOSE
01:09:17RELATIONSHIPS. SO I CAN'T WAIT TO CONTINUE
01:09:20COMMUNICATING AND MEETING THE NEW GOVERNORS AND WE'RE GOING TO
01:09:24MOVE FORWARD.
01:09:25BUT, AGAIN, I WANT FA I WA,
01:09:33THE WAR IS NOT OVER.
01:09:36>> IS THERE ANY KIND OF A BACKLASH FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP
01:09:39GIVEN WHAT AMBASSADOR HOEKSTRA
01:09:43SAID THAT THE REPUBLICANS MIGHT
01:09:45BLAME CANADA -- IT'S A CONVINCING DEFEAT FOR THEM.
01:09:49>> PRESIDENT TRUMP WANTS TO BLAME EVERYONE ELSE BUT HIMSELF.
01:09:52HE SAYS WELL, YOU KNOW, PRETEND MY NAME'S ON THE BALLOT.
01:09:56AMERICAN PEOPLE LISTENED TO THAT. AND THEY SHOWED WHAT THEY
01:10:00THOUGHT ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THEN AFTER THE ELECTION, HE
01:10:02STARTS INSULTING HIS OWN CANDIDATES THAT HE ENDORSED AND
01:10:06SAID, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE LOUSY CANDIDATES.
01:10:09AND MY NAME WASN'T ON -- THE CHEESE SLIPPED OFF THE CRACKER
01:10:13WITH THIS GUY TOTALLY. THERE'S NO CRACKER. THERE'S NO MORE CHEESE AND I
01:10:17THINK 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
01:10:23AND YOU TO WALK AWAY FROM THE -- THE PRIME MINISTER WALKED AWAY
01:10:26FROM THE DEAL IN AUGUST, AND YOS
01:10:30THIS A VINDICATION OF THAT STRATEGY? >> I'VE ALWAYS SAID TO THE PRIME
01:10:33MINISTER NO DEAL IS BETTER THAN ANY DEAL. WE'RE WORKING SO WELL TOGETHER.
01:10:37ALL OF US, COLLABORATIVELY. NOT JUST MYSELF AND THE PRIME
01:10:41MINISTER BUT ALL THE PREMIERS ACROSS OUR COUNTRY.
01:10:44SO WE'RE UNITED. WE'RE MOVING FORWARD AND NOW I
01:10:47THINK THIS GIVES US A LITTLE MORE LEVERAGE. BUT, AGAIN, I WANT TO EMPHASIZE
01:10:51THE WAR'S NOT OVER AND WE'RE
01:10:53GOING FACE-OFF TO HAVE TO .
01:10:57[ Inaudible Question from Reporter ] >> YEAH, GREAT QUESTION.
01:11:01IT'S ABOUT BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS. I'VE BEEN GOING BACK AND FORTH
01:11:04WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE. I GOT A MESSAGE FROM A CONGRESS
01:11:08PERSON IN MICHIGAN, DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS PERSON, HAPPY AS
01:11:11ANYTHING AND I SAID LET'S CONTINUE BUILDING OUR
01:11:15RELATIONSHIP. WE'RE NUMBER ONE TRADING PARTNER IS MICHIGAN.
01:11:19THE AUTO SECTOR DOWN IN THE U.S.
01:11:23LOST $110 BILLION BECAUSE OF THE
01:11:25TERRIBLE TARIFFS AND IT'S ABOUT UNCERTAINTY.
01:11:28BUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SPOKE
01:11:30AND I COULDN'T BE HAPPIER. THEY CAN BLAME EVERYONE THEY
01:11:34WANT, BUT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS TO LOOK IN THE MIRROR.
01:11:37TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE
01:11:39RESULTS OF LAST NIGHT.
01:11:42[ Inaudible Question from Reporter ] >> I'M WILLING TO WORK WITH ANYONE.
01:11:46I KNOW THE NEW SENATOR WANTS ONE
01:11:49THING, JOBS, PROSPERITY, ECONOMIC GROWTH IN MICHIGAN AND
01:11:53SO DOES THE NEW GOVERNOR. SO WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE
01:11:56BUILDING A GREAT RELATIONSHIP.
01:11:58>> HOW SHOULD CANADA GO ABOUT
01:12:01DOING A TRADE DEAL NOW, RELIEVING THE TARIFFS NOW THAT
01:12:05WE HAVE THE RESULTS OF LAST NIGHT? WHAT'S THE FIRST STEP?
01:12:07>> I THINK THE FIRST STEP IS
01:12:09SITTING DOWN AND BUILDING THOSE
01:12:11RELATIONSHIPS AS I MENTION.
01:12:14THE GOVERNORS HAVE BIG SAY IN THE U.S. AND PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS
01:12:18TO START LISTENING. YOU KNOW, HE LOST A BIG ELECTION LAST NIGHT.
01:12:20HE LOST A LOT OF SEATS NO MATTER
01:12:24IF IT'S IN THE SENATE OR IN CONGRESS. HE HAS TO START LISTENING TO THE PEOPLE.
01:12:27IF AND THAT'S UP TO THE PRIME
01:12:31MINISTER TO SIT DOWN WITH THEM. I KNOW THEY'VE BEEN TALKING OVER
01:12:35THE LAST LITTLE WHILE AND LET'S -- YOU KNOW, LET'S DO
01:12:38EVERYTHING WE CAN TO GET RID OF THESE TARIFFS AND SHOW
01:12:41PROSPERITY IN BOTH COUNTRIES. THAT'S WHAT WE'LL CREATE
01:12:45OPPORTUNITIES IN BOTH COUNTRIES BY GETTING RID OF THE TARIFFS.
01:12:48>> DO YOU THINK WE CAN TRUST -- AS CANADIANS, WE CAN TRUST OUR
01:12:51DEALINGS WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP?
01:12:53>> I CAN'T TRUST HIM AS FAR AS I CAN THROW HIM.
01:12:57THAT'S MY PERSONAL OPINION. MAYBE THE PRIME MINISTER FEELS
01:12:59DIFFERENTLY. BUT HAS SHOWN OVER AND OVER
01:13:02AGAIN THAT HE CAN'T BE TRUSTED. HE'LL MAKE A DEAL, WAKE UP IN
01:13:06THE MORNING AND CHANGE THE DEAL. THAT -- THE TARIFFS IN JANUARY
01:13:09ARE REAL.
01:13:12THEY'RE AS REAL AS I'M STANDING HERE, NO MATTER IF IT'S THE AUTO SECTOR.
01:13:15WE SAW A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, MAYBE LAST WEEK, ABOUT OUR WASTE.
01:13:19YOU KNOW, HE WANTS TO TARIFF OUR WASTE.
01:13:2250% TARIFF. I'VE BEEN SAYING SINCE I'VE BEEN A CITY COUNCILLOR, WE HAVE TO BE
01:13:26RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR OWN WASTE.
01:13:28WE HAVE TO LOOK AT DIFFERENT
01:13:32METHODS OF GETTING RID OF OUR
01:13:34WASTE AND COPENHAGEN IS ONE GOOD EXAMPLE.
01:13:36I WAS READING UP ON HOW THEY'RE TURNING THEIR WASTE INTO ENERGY
01:13:39AND I ALWAYS SAY FROM TRASH TO CASH.
01:13:43I KNOW WE HAVE THAT IN PEEL WHICH IS BEING EXPANDED AND WE
01:13:47HAVE IT IN DURHAM REGION THAT'S BEING EXPANDED. THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO DO AND
01:13:50THE EUROPEANS ARE SO MUCH FURTHER AHEAD THAN WE ARE ON THIS.
01:13:53WE HAVE TO TAKE WHAT WORKS IN
01:13:57EUROPE AND ADOPT IT HERE IN
01:13:59ONTARIO AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
01:14:03>> PREMIER, ON -- >> THAT WAS ONTARIO'S PREMIER
01:14:05DOUG FORD REACTING TO THE U.S. MID-TERM ELECTION RESULTS WHICH
01:14:08SAW A MAJOR SHIFT IN POWER WITH
01:14:11DEMOCRATS SECURING CONTROL OF CONGRESS.
01:14:13IT WAS SEEN ALSO AS A BELOW TO DONALD TRUMP.
01:14:17DOUG FORD SAID HE WAS DOING CARTWHEELS AFTER HEARING THE
01:14:20RESULTS. HE'S BEEN A BIG CRITIC OF THE U.S. PRESIDENT.
01:14:23EPP SAYS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN AND THE COST OF
01:14:26LIVING, THE WAR ON IRAN AND THE
01:14:28IMPACT OF THE TRADE WAR WITH CANADA WERE MAJOR FACTORS IN HIS
01:14:32OPINION AND HE SAYS AS SOON AS IT'S POSSIBLE, HE WILL HAVE HIS PROVINCIAL MINISTERS HEAD DOWN
01:14:36TO WASHINGTON TO MEET WITH STATE REPRESENTATIVES AND HE, TOO,
01:14:40WILL ALSO BE MEETING WITH GOVERNORS AS SOON AS HE CAN TO
01:14:43TRY TO ADVANCE ANY SORT OF DEAL WITH CANADA AND ADVANCE ALSO
01:14:47CANADA'S MESSAGE.
01:14:51>>> MICHIGANDERS, WE WANT OUR TAXES SPENT HERE FOR SCHOOLS HERE AND HEALTH CARE HERE AND
01:14:55INFRASTRUCTURE HERE.
01:14:57WE DON'T WANT OUR MONEY SENT TO
01:14:59DO APARTHEID OR GENOCIDAL WARS.
01:15:04SO MIKE, ENJOY YOUR RETIREMENT.
01:15:06[ Cheering ] I KNOW YOU HAVE A HOUSE IN
01:15:09FLORIDA AND TWO YACHTS.
01:15:10THE YOU CHOSE HATE AND MICHIGAN
01:15:18CHOSE HOPE. >> THAT'S ABDUL EL-SAYED ONE OF THE BIG WINNERS FROM A NIGHT OF
01:15:21BIG WINS FOR THE DEMOCRATS
01:15:24TAKING MICHIGAN'S OPEN SENATE SEAT.
01:15:27HE'S THE FIRST ASYLUM ELECTED TO THE UPPER CHAMBER.
01:15:30IT'S A BREAKTHROUGH FOR THE
01:15:32DEMOCRATIC PROGRESSIVE WIN. THEY'RE BLAMING TRUMP FOR THEIR
01:15:36LOSS IN WHAT WAS A TIGHT RACE. >> I'M NOT HAPPY WITH PRESIDENT
01:15:40TRUMP. IF HE WAS ON THE BALLOT, HE
01:15:43WOULD HAVE WON BIG. THAT'S HIS EGO, HE CAUSED A LOT
01:15:47OF THIS. >> I THINK THAT PEOPLE ARE
01:15:50SHORTSIGHTEDLY FOCUSING ON
01:15:53THINGS LIKE GAS PRICES AND OUR INVOLVEMENT IN THE WAR RATHER
01:15:56THAN LOOKING AT THE LONG-TERM
01:15:59EFFECTS OF THEIR VOTES THAT THEY'RE CASTING.
01:16:02>> WHEN IT COMES TO CONSERVATIVE WINNING YOUTH UNDER THE AGE OF
01:16:0530, TURNOUT IS GOING TO LOOK
01:16:09PRETTY LOW AND I THINK THAT'S KIND OF THE LESSON HERE TO TAKE
01:16:13REALLY. >> Aarti: THE CBC'S MEAGAN FITZPATRICK IS ON THE STORY AND
01:16:16JOINS ME FROM DETROIT. SO WE HEARD FROM SOME
01:16:20DISAPPOINTED REPUBLICANS THERE, YOU'VE BEEN SPEAKING TO SOME PEOPLE WHO WERE OUT IN DETROIT
01:16:24TODAY. WHAT ARE THEY SAYING TO YOU? >> Reporter: YEAH, WE'VE BEEN
01:16:27STOPPING PEOPLE ON THE STREET ON THIS RAINY MORNING IN DETROIT TO
01:16:30ASK THEM FOR THEIR REACTION TO
01:16:32THE RESULTS LAST NIGHT. HERE IN MICHIGAN AND ALSO THE
01:16:36BROADER RESULTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
01:16:38AND PEOPLE ARE TELLING ME THAT THEY GOT THE CHANGE THEY WERE
01:16:41LOOKING FOR. THAT WAS A COMMON THEME I HEARD FROM VOTERS.
01:16:45I WAS TALKING TO YESTERDAY AT A
01:16:47POLLING STATION AND AT THE ABDUL
01:16:50EL-SAYED AND THE OTHER MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS GATHERING LAST NIGHT.
01:16:53WHEN I WAS TALKING TO THEM AND TALKING TO PEOPLE THIS MORNING
01:16:56ABOUT WHAT'S BEHIND THIS CHANGE, WHY THE DEMOCRATS WERE SO
01:17:00SUCCESSFUL LAST NIGHT, PEOPLE ARE SAYING THAT THEY THINK
01:17:04PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HASN'T KEPT HIS PROMISE THEY MADE WHEN HE WAS UP FOR RE-ELECTION TWO
01:17:08YEARS AGO TO MAKE LIFE MORE AFFORDABLE FOR PEOPLE AND PEOPLE
01:17:11HERE ARE STRUGGLING. THAT IS WHAT THEY KEEP TELLING ME.
01:17:14THE PRICE OF GAS, THE PRICE OF
01:17:16GROCERIES, IT'S JUST HARD FOR PEOPLE AND SO THEY WERE SAYING
01:17:19THAT THE MESSAGE FROM ABDUL EL-SAYED IN PARTICULAR REALLY
01:17:23RESONATED WITH THEM. HE WAS CAMPAIGNING ON GETTING
01:17:26MONEY OUT OF POLITICS, PUTTING
01:17:27MONEY IN PEOPLE'S POCKETS AND UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOR
01:17:31PEOPLE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.
01:17:33AND SO PEOPLE SAYING THEY LIKED
01:17:36WHAT THEY HEARD FROM HIM AND THEY'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING WHAT HE CAN DO IN
01:17:40WASHINGTON. HERE'S A BIT MORE OF WHAT I'VE BEEN HEARING FROM VOTERS THIS MORNING.
01:17:44>> I'M HAPPY ABOUT IT.
01:17:46I'M ECSTATIC ABOUT IT TO BE HONEST WITH YOU.
01:17:48I THINK THAT DONALD TRUMP HAS
01:17:51OVERSTEPPED HIS REACH AND SO NOW
01:17:53WE HAVE SOME PEOPLE THAT'S THERE
01:17:55TO KIND OF BLOCK HIM OR TO HONE
01:17:58HIM IN A LITTLE BIT.
01:18:00>> IT'S A CLEAR MESSAGE THAT
01:18:02THINGS NEED TO CHANGE.
01:18:05WE -- UP AND DOWN THE BOARD, ACROSS THE COUNTRY, EVERYBODY IS
01:18:09KIND OF FED UP WITH WHAT'S GOING ON. SO WE'RE LOOKING FOR A CHANGE.
01:18:13WE'RE LOOKING FOR A NEW DIRECTION.
01:18:16>> I THINK HE WILL DO A GREAT JOB.
01:18:18HE'S HAD A LOT OF SUPPORT
01:18:21CERTAINLY FROM DETROIT AND
01:18:24AFRICAN AMERICANS WHO GOT BEHIND HIM.
01:18:27SO I THINK HE WILL DO GREAT. >> WHAT DO YOU WANT HIM TO FOCUS ON?
01:18:31WHAT SHOULD HIS PRIORITY BE? >> DO WHEN WHAT HE CAN DO.
01:18:35ONE PERSON CAN'T REDUCE PRICES. WE KNOW IT TAKES A TEAM AND
01:18:39CONGRESS. >> Reporter: SO NOW THESE
01:18:42VOTERS HERE IN DETROIT ARE
01:18:44COUNTING ON HIM AND THE OTHER DEMOCRATS ELECTED LAST NIGHT TO
01:18:48KEEP THEIR PROMISES TO VOTERS TO
01:18:50MAKE LIFE MORE AFFORDABLE. >> Aarti: MEAGAN, THE ECONOMY
01:18:54WAS A MAJOR FACTOR AS WE HAVE BEEN SCUFFING.
01:18:57THE TRADE WAR WITH CANADA WAS A BIGGER PART OF THIS CAMPAIGN IN
01:19:01MICHIGAN, MAYBE MORE SO THAN A LOT OF OTHER STATES.
01:19:04REMIND US OF THE ISSUE OF TARIFFS AND HOW IT IMPACTED CAMPAIGNS.
01:19:07>> Reporter: YEAH, DEFINITELY WAS AN ISSUE HERE IN MICHIGAN
01:19:10WHICH IS A STATE THAT IS FEELING
01:19:11THE IMPACT OF THE U.S. TARIFFS ON CANADA.
01:19:15THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR HERE IN
01:19:17PARTICULAR, THE AUTO SECTOR AS WELL.
01:19:20AND EL-SAYED INCORPORATED INTO
01:19:25HIS CAMPAIGN BLAMING THE TARIFFS IN PART FOR HIGHER PRICES AND
01:19:28POINTED TO THE WAR IN IRAN AS WELL. SO WE HEARD HIM THROUGH THE
01:19:32CAMPAIGN CRITICIZING THE U.S.
01:19:34TARIFFS ON CANADA, BUT HE'S NOT COMPLETELY AGAINST TARIFFS ALL TOGETHER.
01:19:38HE JUST WAS SAYING THAT THEY NEED TO BE USED IN A MORE
01:19:41TARGETED WAY, A MORE -- NOT IN A
01:19:45HAPPEN ARSON WAY WHICH IS WHAT
01:19:48HE SAYS TRUMP IS DOING. WE HEARD HIM DEFEND HOW NICE
01:19:51CANADIANS ARE AND HOW CANADA
01:19:54PRE-EMPTIVELY APOLOGIZE BEFORE THEY HAVE DONE ANYTHING WRONG.
01:19:58HE OFTEN MENTIONED CANADA.
01:20:00BUT WE ALSO HEARD MIKE ROGERS,
01:20:03HIS POSITION ON TARIFFS.
01:20:06HE HAD TO WALK A TRICKY LINE ACKNOWLEDGING THE TARIFFS HAD AN
01:20:10IMPACT IN THE STATE BUT 23409 NT
01:20:14CRITICIZING TRUMP TOO HEAVILY.
01:20:17HE PUT OUT A CAMPAIGN AD FILMING
01:20:19HIM IN A BAR DRINKING A LABATT BLUE BEER AND SAYING CANADIANS
01:20:22AREN'T THE ENEMY. AND TRYING TO TELL VOTERS HERE
01:20:26HE WOULD BE THE ONE TO HELP GET
01:20:29A DEAL DONE BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.
01:20:33ASIDE FROM TRADE, I'LL MENTION QUICKLY ANOTHER ROLE CANADA
01:20:36PLAYED IN THE CAMPAIGN WAS ON HEALTH CARE. EL-SAYED WAS CAMPAIGNING ON
01:20:40HEALTH CARE FOR ALL, MEDICARE FOR ALL. AT ONE POINT HE TRAVELLED TO THE
01:20:44CANADIAN SIDE OF THE BORDER, TO WINDSOR, WHICH IS NOT TOO FAR
01:20:48AWAY, AND TALKED TO CANADIANS ABOUT HEALTH CARE COSTS. SO THAT WAS ANOTHER WAY THAT
01:20:51CANADA CAME UP ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL.
01:20:55IN THE END, OBVIOUSLY EL-SAYED WAS VICTORIOUS LAST NIGHT AND
01:20:58THE QUESTION WILL BE WHAT CAN HE
01:21:01AND THE OTHER DEMOCRATS ELECTED
01:21:03LAST NIGHT DO ABOUT THE THE
01:21:07TRADE WAR THEY'RE NOT BE SWORN IN UNTIL JANUARY.
01:21:10IT WILL BE SOME TIME BEFORE THEY
01:21:13TAKE THEIR SEATS IN CONGRESS AND MIGHT BE ABLE TO USE THE
01:21:16INFLUENCE THEY'LL HAVE. WE'LL SEE. DEFINITELY IT WAS INTERESTING TO
01:21:19SEE 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
01:21:27DETROIT. >>> WE WANT TO TAKE TO YOU WASHINGTON NOW.
01:21:31CHUCK SCHUMER IS SPEAKING AFTER
01:21:33A BIG VICTORY FOR HIS DEMOCRATIC PARTY. LET'S LISTEN IN.
01:21:37>> WE CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT,
01:21:39THEY ENTRUSTED US WITH THE
01:21:41MAJORITY TO DO WHAT THEY, THE
01:21:44AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT. REPUBLICANS RECEIVED THAT
01:21:48OPPORTUNITY TWO YEARS AGO.
01:21:50AND COMPLETELY SQUANDERED IT.
01:21:54THE GOP MISREAD AMERICANS' DEMAND FOR CHANGE AS A MANDATE
01:21:57TO DO TRUMP'S SELF SERVING
01:22:01BIDDING AND TRUMP SPENT HALF HIS TIME TALKING ABOUT THINGS THAT
01:22:05WERE IRRELEVANT TO THEIR LIVES,
01:22:11ANNOYING, THE REFLECTING POOL,
01:22:15THE NEW WALL, BUT MOST OF THE
01:22:18TIME, HE DID THINGS THAT HURT THEM.
01:22:21IT RAISED THEIR HEALTH CARE COSTS. IT RAISED THEIR ELECTRICITY BILLS.
01:22:24IT RAISED THEIR FUEL -- THEIR
01:22:27GASOLINE AND DIESEL COSTS.
01:22:31REPUBLICAN EYES WERE SO GLUED TO TRUMP'S TRUTH SOCIAL FEED THAT
01:22:35THEY MISSED THE TRUTH.
01:22:39STARING THEM DEAD IN THE FACE. AMERICANS HATE THE DIRECTION OUR
01:22:42COUNTRY IS GOING IN RIGHT NOW.
01:22:46SO NOW REPUBLICANS WILL HAVE TO CHOOSE WHETHER TO KEEP LISTENING
01:22:49TO THE NONSENSE THAT'S COMING
01:22:52OUT OF 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
01:22:55OR START ACTING IN THE INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
01:22:59IF THEY CONTINUE TO EMBRACE
01:23:03TRUMP, THEY'RE GOING TO BE FOLLOWING HIM RIGHT OVER THE
01:23:06CLIFF AS THIS ELECTION HAS SHOWN AND IT WILL GET EVEN WORSE FOR
01:23:10THEM. WHAT IS OUR ASSIGNMENT? FIRST, AMERICANS WANT WASHINGTON
01:23:13TO BRING DOWN THE COST OF LIVING.
01:23:17THE ANGUISH THAT AMERICAN FAMILIES FEEL AS THEY ASK
01:23:21THEMSELVES DO I PAY FOR GAS TO DRIVE TO WORK OR GROCERIES TO
01:23:25FEED THE KIDS? DO I PAY FOR HEALTH CARE OR
01:23:28ELECTRICITY TO KEEP MY FAMILY
01:23:29WARM THIS WINTER?
01:23:32SECOND AMERICANS WANT US TO CLEAN UP CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT.
01:23:36THEY KNOW THAT TRUMP IS THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN
01:23:39HISTORY.
01:23:41NO AMERICAN SHOULD HAVE TO MAKE
01:23:44TRADE OFFICE AT THE SUPERMARKET WHILE TRUMP IS MAKING INSIDER
01:23:48TRADES ON THE STOCK MARKET.
01:23:51AMERICANS ARE CALLING FOR ACCOUNTABILITY NOT ACCOMMODATION
01:23:54AND THIRD THEY WANT US TO CHECK ON TRUMP'S CHAOS AT HOME AND
01:23:58ABROAD. WE'VE SEEN TOO MANY AMERICANS
01:24:00DIE ON OUR STREETS AND IN
01:24:03UNIFORM OVERSEAS.
01:24:05BECAUSE OF TRUMP'S ERRATIC JUDGMENT.
01:24:07THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE FIGHTING FOR IN IRAN.
01:24:10HE NEVER MADE IT CLEAR. HE CHANGES HIS MIND DAY TO DAY
01:24:14AND MINUTE TO MINUTE. THIS WAR MUST END.
01:24:17IT MUST END.
01:24:20MAKE NO MISTAKE. WHENEVER TRUMP DEFIES THE WILL
01:24:24OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, OR THE LAW, WE WILL LAUNCH
01:24:27INVESTIGATIONS, TAKE HIM TO COURT AND ENTANGLE HIM IN
01:24:31LEGISLATIVE RAZOR WIRE.
01:24:33THE DAYS OF TRUMP'S -- FOR THE
01:24:47AMERICAN PEOPLE.
01:24:49BUT IF THERE'S ONE HOPEFUL --
01:24:51I'D LIKE TO CONCLUDE ON THIS NOTE.
01:24:55IF THERE'S ONE HOPEFUL OPTIMISTIC TAKE AWAY, REMEMBER
01:24:58FROM THIS ELECTION, OUR DEMOCRACY RUNS DEEP.
01:25:02VERY DEEP. OUR FOUNDERS CREATED THIS AMAZING DOCUMENT, THE
01:25:06CONSTITUTION. THEY ENVISIONED CO-EQUAL
01:25:09BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT, WHAT THEY SAID WAS AMBITION WAS MADE
01:25:13TO COUNTER ACT AMBITION.
01:25:15BUT WHEN AMBITION TURNS TO BLIND
01:25:19LOYALTY, THERE'S ONLY ONE LAST
01:25:20FIRE WALL.
01:25:23THEY THOUGHT THE LEGISLATURE WOULD CHECK A KING LIKE
01:25:27PRESIDENT. THIS LEGISLATURE, THIS SENATE, HAS FAILED.
01:25:30AND SO THERE WAS ONE LAST FIREWALL.
01:25:34IN OUR SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND
01:25:37BALANCES, WHERE POWER DERIVES FROM THE CONSENT TO THE GOVERNMENT, ELECTIONS HAVE
01:25:41ALWAYS BEEN THE STRONGEST LEVER
01:25:44AMERICANS HAVE TO COUNTER A
01:25:46WANNABE KING.
01:25:50AS LONG AS AMERICANS ARE WILLING TO USE IT.
01:25:53YESTERDAY, AMERICA DID.
01:25:56EVEN DURING THE MOST DIFFICULT TIMES, IN THESE TWO YEARS HAVE
01:25:59BEEN AMONG THEM, AMERICANS HAVE
01:26:02NEVER LOST FAITH THAT THEY CAN CHANGE THIS COUNTRY WITH THEIR
01:26:06VOTE.
01:26:08THE ONUS IS NOW ON US TO PROVE
01:26:11THEM RIGHT.
01:26:16[ Indiscernible Interjections ] >> NO NO NO NO. >> HAVE YOU SPOKEN TO THE
01:26:20PRESIDENT YET ABOUT HOW YOU'RE GOING TO BE THE FIREWALL AND --
01:26:23>> NO, NOT YET. >> HOW ARE DEMOCRATS GOING TO
01:26:27END THE WAR WITH IRAN? ARE YOU GOING TO USE DEFENCE FUNDING AS LEVERAGE?
01:26:31>> LOOK, WE ARE GOING TO END THE WAR.
01:26:33WE HAVE SOME REPUBLICANS ALREADY
01:26:35WHO JOINED US IN ENDING THE WAR.
01:26:38AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS HAD THE
01:26:39POWER OF THE PURSE AS ONE OF THE
01:26:42WAYS OF DETERRING A PRESIDENT
01:26:45WHO DOES WAR WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
01:26:48>> YOU TOOK A LOT OF CRITICISM
01:26:50IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS AS
01:26:52LEADER, FRUSTRATED DEMOCRATS, IS THIS A VINDICATION FOR YOU AND
01:26:56YOUR VISION OF THE SENATE AND -- >> YOU KNOW, OKAY.
01:26:59>> RED AND PURPLE STATES. >> THIS IS NOT ABOUT ME.
01:27:02THIS IS ABOUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY WANT AND
01:27:06WHAT THEY NEED AND WHAT WE CAN
01:27:08DO TO HELP THEM PLAIN AND SIMPLE. YES.
01:27:12GO AHEAD. IGOR.
01:27:14>> WERE YESTERDAY'S RESULTS A
01:27:17MANDATE FOR DEMOCRATS TO IMPEACH
01:27:19PETE HEGSETH?
01:27:21>> EVERYONE WILL MAKE THEIR OWN
01:27:24INTERPRETATION IN TERMS OF HEGSETH. [ Inaudible Question from Reporter ]
01:27:27>> JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS, IS THIS
01:27:29A BLANKET HOLD OR IS THERE ROOM FOR BIPARTISANSHIP?
01:27:33>> LOOK, WENT JUDICIAL NOMINEES
01:27:35LIKE WE SHOWED IN 23 AND 24.
01:27:40WHO OBEY THE LAW, WHO ARE -- WHO
01:27:42HAVE FILLED ELIMINATE TO F
01:27:50LAW. >> SENATE REPUBLICS RAN ON THIS MESSAGE THAT SENATE DEMOCRATS
01:27:53WOULD ABOLISH THE FILIBUSTER,
01:27:57NUKE THE FILL FILIBUSTER --
01:28:03>> THE FIRST THING WE'LL DO IS
01:28:05REDUCE PEOPLE'S COSTS AND WORK
01:28:07THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS SO IT DOES.
01:28:11THANK 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 --
01:28:21WE'RE GOING TO WORK HARD TO DRIVE COSTS DOWN WITH THE
01:28:24PRESIDENT OR WITHOUT HIM.
01:28:29PERIOD.
01:28:29>> Aarti: FINAL COMMENTS
01:28:33THERE, CHUCK SCHUMER DELIVERING REMARKS, REPORTING TO THE
01:28:35OUTCOME OF THE U.S. MID-TERMS.
01:28:38OF COURSE WHERE WE KNOW THE DEMOCRATS TOOK CONTROL OF CONGRESS.
01:28:41SOME OF THE REMARKS HE MADE THERE SAYING -- LAYING OUT THE
01:28:45PRIORITIES FOR DEMOCRATS AS THEY MOVE FORWARD SUGGESTING NUMBER
01:28:47ONE THE FOCUS IS ON BRINGING DOWN THE COST OF LIVING AND YOU
01:28:51HEARD THE FINAL COMMENTS FROM HIM THERE THAT WOULD BE WITH OR WITHOUT THE PRESIDENT.
01:28:55SECOND, HE SAYS AMERICANS WANT US TO CLEAN UP THE CORRUPTION IN
01:28:59GOVERNMENT AND ALSO THEY WANT US TO CHECK ON TRUMP'S CHAOS AT
01:29:02HOME AND ABROAD. CERTAINLY WE KNOW THAT THE WAR
01:29:04IN IRAN HAS BEEN A LARGE FACTOR
01:29:07THAT WEIGHED IN ON VOTERS' MINDS AS THEY CAST A BALLOT.
01:29:10I WANT TO BRING IN THE CBC'S MARK CARCASOLE AS HE WAS LISTENING IN.
01:29:13HE JOINS US NOW LIVE FROM WASHINGTON. YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A REAL
01:29:17COMMITMENT THERE, A PLEDGE, FROM
01:29:19CHUCK CHUCK SCHUMER SAYING WE WILL END THE WAR WITH IRAN.
01:29:23WE WILL USE IF WE NEED TO THE
01:29:25POWER OF THE PURSE AND THERE ARE SOME REPUBLICANS ALREADY ON BOARD.
01:29:29WHAT MORE DID YOU MAKE OF THAT SORT OF PRIORITY LIST THAT WE
01:29:32HEARD FROM THE SENATE MINORITY LEADER? >> Reporter: IT'S CLEAR THAT
01:29:36ENDING THE WAR IN IRAN IS A BIG PART OF IT, SENATOR SCHUMER
01:29:40SAYING IN THOSE REMARKS THAT MOST AMERICANS THAT HE SPEAKS TO
01:29:43ANYWAY DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR THERE.
01:29:47THE THIRD PRIORITY IN THAT THREE PRIORITY LIST, CHECKING TRUMP'S
01:29:51CHAOS AT HOME AND ABROAD. I TOOK THAT TO MEAN NOT JUST THE
01:29:55WAR IN IRAN, BUT PERHAPS THE
01:29:58I.C.E. SITUATION IN THE E.U. AS WELL WHERE SOME AMERICAN
01:30:00CITIZENS HAVE BEEN KILLED AT THE HANDS OF I.C.E. OFFICERS.
01:30:03HE MIGHT POTENTIALLY ALSO BE
01:30:05ALLUDING TO THE SITUATION IN
01:30:09GAZA AS WELL WITH THE RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL BEING
01:30:13SOMETHING THAT HAS COME UP FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP HIMSELF.
01:30:16THE FUNDING GOING TOWARDS ISRAEL. IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHAT HE
01:30:19MEANS THERE. HE DIDN'T GIVE DETAILS ABOUT HOW EXACTLY THE DEMOCRATS WOULD GO
01:30:23ABOUT ENDING THE WAR IN IRAN.
01:30:26HE SAID WITH OR WITHOUT THE PRESIDENT. ALREADY REPUBLICANS THAT HE
01:30:29FEELS CONFIDENT THAT THEY CAN WORK WITH TO HELP MAKE THAT
01:30:32HAPPEN AND THAT THE PURSE WOULD
01:30:34BE A BIG PART OF THAT CERTAINLY.
01:30:37REGARDING THE DEMOCRATS' WIN YESTERDAY, THE RECORD NUMBERS
01:30:40THEY SAW AND WHAT SPAWNED IT, HE
01:30:42SAYS THAT THIS WAS ESSENTIALLY A SQUANDERED OPPORTUNITY BY THE
01:30:46REPUBLICANS. THEY WERE GIVEN THE SAME OPPORTUNITY THE DEMOCRATS WERE
01:30:48GIVEN YESTERDAY TO DO WHAT THEY WANT, TO DO WHAT THE AMERICAN
01:30:52PEOPLE WANT AND THE REPUBLICANS SQUANDERED IT AND INSTEAD THEY
01:30:55RALLIED BEHIND THE PRESIDENT,
01:30:57DONALD TRUMP, WHO HE CALLS SELF SERVING.
01:31:00SPENT HALF HIS TIME DISCUSSING THINGS THAT WERE IRRELEVANT TO
01:31:03THE AMERICANS, BE LIKE THE REFLECTING POOLS, RENOVATIONS
01:31:06AND VANITY PROJECTS IN THE CAPITAL DISTRICT.
01:31:09HE SAYS AMERICANS HATE THE DIRECTION OUR COUNTRY IS GOING
01:31:12IN AND FEELS THE DEMOCRATS WILL RIGHT THE SHIP. NOW AS WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT
01:31:16ALL DAY, HOW EASY THAT WILL BE
01:31:18TO DO, THAT'S A WHOLE OTHER DISCUSSION BECAUSE, YES, WHILE
01:31:21THE DEMOCRATS NOW HAVE THE POWER TO PUT FORWARD THEIR OWN
01:31:24LEGISLATION, AND BLOCK REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION, ANYTHING
01:31:27THEY COULD PUT FORWARD CAN BE BLOCKED BY PRESIDENT DONALD
01:31:30TRUMP AND HIS VETO POWER. THE PRESIDENT CAN ALSO GET
01:31:33AROUND CONGRESS USING HIS EXECUTIVE POWER. IN ORDER TO GET AROUND A
01:31:37PRESIDENTIAL VETO, THE DEMOCRATS
01:31:38NEED A TWO-THIRDS SUPERMAJORITY.
01:31:42THEY DON'T HAVE THAT UNLESS THEY
01:31:44CAN GET REPUBLICANS AND INDEPENDENTS ON BOARD TO VOTE WITH THEM.
01:31:48>> Aarti: MARK, THANK YOU. THE CBC'S MARK CARCASOLE IN
01:31:51WASHINGTON. >>> AS WE'VE BEEN REPORTING,
01:31:54DEMOCRATS HAVE WON CONTROL OF CONGRESS. SECURING AT LEAST 228 PLUS SEATS
01:31:57IN THE HOUSE. AND ADDING SEVEN IN THE SENATE.
01:32:01TWO SENATE RACES REMAIN TOSS UPS, ALASKA AND MISSISSIPPI.
01:32:05A DEMOCRAT HASN'T WON A SENATE RACE IN MISSISSIPPI SINCE 1982.
01:32:09SO WHAT DOES THIS BLUE WAVE MEAN FOR DONALD TRUMP AND WHAT DOES
01:32:12IT MEAN FOR CANADA? WE'LL CONTINUE TO KEEP AN EYE ON
01:32:16THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS HERE ON
01:32:17CBC NEWS NETWORK.
01:34:03>> Aarti: WE ARE CONTINUING TO COVER THE DEMOCRATS' TAKEOVER OF THE U.S. CONGRESS AND PERHAPS
01:34:06ONE OF THE BIGGEST UPSETS OF THE
01:34:08MID-TERMS WAS THE UNSEATING OF
01:34:10SUSAN COLLINS IN MAINE, THE
01:34:13FAMOUSLY MODERATE REPUBLICAN
01:34:15SENATOR WAS ELECTED IN 1996, 30 YEARS AGO.
01:34:19>> WE WENT ALL OVER THE STATE
01:34:21AND I'VE GOT TO TELL YOU, THE
01:34:24CROWDS WERE HUGE.
01:34:26THE RECEPTION WAS WARM.
01:34:29AND THE RESPONSE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN BETTER.
01:34:32>> Aarti: THE RESPONSE AT THE BALLOT BOX WAS QUITE DIFFERENT.
01:34:35EVEN THOUGH THE FIVE TERM REPUBLICAN WORKED TO DISTANCE HERSELF FROM DONALD TRUMP
01:34:39THROUGHOUT HER CAMPAIGN, VOTING AGAINST HIS TARIFF POLICIES,
01:34:42MORE VOTERS IN MAINE RALLIED
01:34:45BEHIND DEMOCRAT TROY JACKSON.
01:34:47>>> SO WHERE DOES LAST NIGHT'S
01:34:50BLUE TSUNAMI LEAVE THE GOP?
01:35:00KEVIN 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.
01:35:07MID-TERM ELECTION RESULTS?
01:35:11>> WELL, THIS WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE INEVITABLE THAT WE WOULD
01:35:14LOSE SOME SEATS. 90 PERCENT OF THE TIME IN A
01:35:17MID-TERM WHEN YOU HOLD THE WHITE HOUSE, YOU LOSE HOUSE SEATS AND
01:35:2080% OF THE TIME YOU LOSE SENATE SEATS.
01:35:23THE MAGNITUDE WAS SURPRISING AND WHERE IT HAPPENED WAS GENUINELY
01:35:27SHOCKING. TEXAS, KANSAS, OHIO, IOWA.
01:35:31ALL RED STATES. STATES THAT JUST TWO YEARS AGO
01:35:34VOTED 10 POINTS OR MORE FOR DONALD TRUMP.
01:35:36AND SO VOTERS HAVE TURNED AROUND
01:35:39NOW DUE TO I THINK HIGH GAS
01:35:41PRICES, UNPOPULAR WAR AND SAID
01:35:43THEY WANT TO PUNISH REPUBLICANS AND I DON'T THINK IT'S --
01:35:47DEMOCRATS ARE THE BENEFICIARY OF IT, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S
01:35:50BECAUSE OF DEMOCRATIC POLICIES SO MUCH.
01:35:52IT'S JUST THEY WANTED TO PUNISH SOMEONE FOR THE COST OF LIVING
01:35:55AND THAT'S WHAT THEY DID.
01:35:57>> Aarti: THIS YOU BELIEVE WAS
01:36:00A VOTE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP, AGAINST TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
01:36:03POLICIES OVER A VOTE IN FAVOUR OF WHAT THE DEMOCRATS MAY BE PROPOSING.
01:36:06YOU LISTED A NUMBER OF THESE RED
01:36:09STATES WHERE HISTORICALLY WE HAVE NOT SEEN DEMOCRATS BE SENT
01:36:12TO EITHER THE SENATE OR THE HOUSE OR LEAD THE STATES AS A
01:36:16GOVERNOR. WHAT SURPRISED YOU THE MOST?
01:36:20>> WELL, THE TOTAL SWEEP IN TEXAS IS DISTURBING TO EVERY
01:36:24REPUBLICAN BECAUSE THAT'S THE CORNERSTONE OF REPUBLICAN --
01:36:27THAT ANCHORS OUR ENTIRE PARTY NATIONALLY.
01:36:29IF WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT GOING INTO 2028 PRESIDENTIAL
01:36:33ELECTION NOW, THAT'S GOING TO BE REALLY DIFFICULT.
01:36:36IT'S THE MATH ON THE ELECTORAL
01:36:37VOTES IS TOO MUCH.
01:36:42WHERE WE -- THE ONE BRIGHT SPOT
01:36:45FLORIDA WHERE RON DeSANTIS
01:36:47BUILD A RED WALL AND REALLY STAVED OFF ANY HARM THERE FOR
01:36:50THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
01:36:52SO BOTH SENATORS WON -- BOTH
01:36:56SENATE AND GOVERNOR WON.
01:36:57HE'S OUT MAKING HIS CASE RIGHT AWAY.
01:37:00SO IT SOUNDS LIKE HE MIGHT THROW
01:37:02HIS HAT IN THE 2028 RING SOON.
01:37:04>> Aarti: INTERESTING TO SEE FOLLOWING THE MID-TERMS WE START
01:37:07THE DISCUSSIONS OF WHO IT MIGHT BE THAT WILL COME FORWARD TO
01:37:10LEAD THE PARTY IN THE NEXT ELECTION. YOU MENTIONED DISTURBING TO
01:37:14REPUBLICANS WHEN YOU WATCH, FOR EXAMPLE, THE RESULTS COMING OUT
01:37:18OF TEXAS WHICH HISTORICALLY HAS
01:37:20BEEN A RED STATE FOR DECADES.
01:37:22I'M WONDERING WHEN YOU SAY DISTURBING, IS THIS A POINT OF
01:37:25RECKONING FOR THE REPUBLICAN
01:37:28PARTY? IN 2016 WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS
01:37:31FIRST ELECTED, THE PARTY WAS NOT
01:37:34NECESSARILY ONSIDE WITH HIM BUT
01:37:36DID, DID ACCEPT HIM AND MOVE FORWARD. IS THIS A RECKONING CHILLY WHEN
01:37:39IT COMES TO THE MAGA NO.
01:37:42MAGAZINE MAGA MOVEMENT?
01:37:47>> I DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING
01:37:49BACK TO PRE-2026 REPUBLICAN 201N
01:37:57PARLIAMENT. IT WILL ALWAYS CONTAIN ELEMENTS OF MAGA.
01:37:58I THINK A NEW MAGA WILL EMERGE.
01:38:02SOMEONE HAS TO COBBLE TOGETHER A
01:38:06COMMON SENSE -- AND PUT THAT TOGETHER AND RUN ON A NATIONAL
01:38:09PLATFORM WITH IT.
01:38:10AND THAT'S WHERE I THINK WE'RE
01:38:13HEADING. >> Aarti: WHERE DOES THE PARTY GO?
01:38:17WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS?
01:38:20>> REBUILD BIT BY BIT AND IT'S GOING TO BE HARD.
01:38:23THESE ARE RED STATES NOW IN DEMOCRAT HANDS FOR SIX YEARS. THAT'S REALLY TOUGH.
01:38:27WE HAVE A LOT OF BLUE STATES WE
01:38:30HAVE TO COMPETE IN IN 2028 AND
01:38:33WITH THE -- HOLDING THE WHITE
01:38:34HOUSE, OBVIOUSLY THE -- IT WILL
01:38:37BE A CHALLENGE. YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT GOING TO BE
01:38:40EASY BUT WE'VE DONE IT BEFORE. WE'VE BEEN LOWER THAN THIS
01:38:44BEFORE IN 2008 AND THIS IS A
01:38:47CHALLENGING TIME, BUT I THINK WE
01:38:49CAN COME OUT OF IT, EMERGE FROM
01:38:52IT A BETTER AND STRONGER PARTY. >> Aarti: IN TERMS OF WHAT THE
01:38:56REPUBLICANS ARE LOOKING AT
01:38:58DEMOCRATS WILL DO NEXT E ROBERT
01:39:01GARCIA'S MESSAGE ONLINE, LEADER
01:39:04OF THE OVERSITE DEMOCRAT COMMITTEE, LAWYER UP.
01:39:07THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF MESSAGES
01:39:10SUGGESTING THAT MEMBERS OF THE TRUMP FAMILY AND PERHAPS THE
01:39:13PRESIDENT HIMSELF MAY BE INVESTIGATED GOING FORWARD.
01:39:17DO YOU THINK THAT THAT IS -- THAT ACCOUNTABILITY PIECE IS THE
01:39:20RIGHT DIRECTION FOR THE DEMOCRATS TO GO?
01:39:24>> WELL, THE ONE THING YOU CAN GUARANTEE IS THE DEMOCRATS WILL
01:39:27OVERREACH AND THEY THINK THEY HAVE A MANDATE HERE.
01:39:31THERE WILL BE A TSUNAMI OF INVESTIGATIONS, BUT WHAT HAPPENS
01:39:33WHEN THAT -- WHEN THAT HAPPENS,
01:39:36IT HURTS THE PARTY THAT'S DOING THE INVESTIGATIONS MORE THAN IT
01:39:39DOES THE OTHER PARTY BECAUSE WE
01:39:41SAW UNDER CLINTON WHEN THE
01:39:45REPUBLICANS OVERREACHED ON HIM
01:39:46AND HE DIDN'T GET HURT IN THE
01:39:51MID-TERMS. DEMOCRATS WENT AFTER DRUM AND
01:39:53TRIED TO PUT HIM IN JAIL.
01:39:57I THINK IT WILL HURT THEM POLITICALLY. IF THEY FIND CORRUPTION, INVESTIGATE IT.
01:40:01IF THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE IT A
01:40:04CIRCUS, IT WILL HURT THEM. >> Aarti: WE HAVE REPORTERS ON
01:40:08THE GROUND SPEAKING TO VOTERS, MANY SAID AFFORDABILITY WAS TOP OF MIND.
01:40:11THE WAR WITH IRAN WAS TOP OF MIND AND, OF COURSE, BE IN SOME
01:40:14STATES, THERE WAS THE TARIFFS WITH CANADA AS WELL AND THE
01:40:17TRADE WAR WITH CANADA AND THE IMPACT THAT'S HAVING ON CERTAIN INDUSTRIES.
01:40:20IN YOUR ESTIMATION, WHAT WAS THE MAJOR FACTOR HERE?
01:40:24BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP SAID THIS ISN'T NECESSARILY -- HE IS NOT
01:40:27VIEWING THIS AS A REFERENDUM ON HIMSELF AND HIS POPULARITY BUT
01:40:29HE SAID THAT HE BELIEVES IT WAS THE WAR ON IRAN AND THE VICE
01:40:33PRESIDENT JD VANCE ECHOED THOSE SENTIMENTS. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
01:40:37>> WELL, IT WAS THE WAR ON IRAN.
01:40:40BEFORE THE WAR, THIS CURRENT VERSION OF IT, GAS PRICES WERE
01:40:44VERY CHEAP. AND GOING DOWN AND HE UNLEASHED
01:40:48ALL SORTS OF AMERICAN ENERGY AND WE HAD A GREAT STORY TO TELL GO
01:40:51INTO THE MID-TERMS AND PEOPLE
01:40:53FEELING GOOD ABOUT GAS PRICES. BUT NOW EVERY TIME YOU PASS THE
01:40:57PUMP YOU CAN SEE HOW MUCH GAS AND DIESEL COSTS AND IT'S SHOCKING AND IT'S NOT EVEN AS
01:41:01HIGH AS IT WAS UNDER BIDEN. BUT PEOPLE ARE NOT HAPPY.
01:41:04THEY PUNISHED BIDEN FOR IT THEN
01:41:08AND THEY ARE PUNISHING REPUBLICANS NOW. THE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF THE
01:41:12ELECTION WAS THE WAR IN IRAN AND GAS PRICES. THAT'S A FACT.
01:41:15HISTORY WILL JUDGE OR NOT THAT WAS ULTIMATELY THE RIGHT THING
01:41:18TO DO BUT THIS IS THE PUNISHMENT
01:41:21THAT REPUBLICANS GET FOR TAKING THIS ACTION.
01:41:24>> Aarti: KEVIN I WANT TO
01:41:26THANK YOU FOR YOUR THOUGHTS AND
01:41:30ANALYSIS. >> THANK YOU. >> KEVIN SHERIDAN, FORMER
01:41:33SPOKESPERSON FOR THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE FROM
01:41:35WASHINGTON.
01:41:38>>> THE U.S. MID-TERMS WAS CLOSELY WATCHED BY MANY CANADIAN POLITICIANS TOO.
01:41:42LET'S BRING IN THE CBC'S OLIVIA STEFANOVICH TRACKING THE
01:41:45REACTION FOR US FROM OTTAWA.
01:41:47WHAT WILL THE RESULTS MEAN FOR
01:41:51CANADA'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE
01:41:55UNITED STATES WHICH IS QUITE TENSE. >> ACCORDING TO THE MINISTER
01:41:58RESPONSIBLE FOR CANADA U.S. TRADE, DOMINIC LeBLANC SAYS
01:42:01THIS WON'T CHANGE MUCH. HE MADE THE COMMENTS OUTSIDE THE
01:42:03LIBERAL CAUCUS MEETING BEFORE ATTENDING THAT MEETING THIS
01:42:06MORNING ON PARLIAMENT HILL.
01:42:08IF AND AND HE NOTED IN THAT W
01:42:13CONGRESS AND SENATE ELECTED IN THE U.S., THEY DON'T SIT UNTIL
01:42:16JANUARY. AND DONALD TRUMP REMAINS THE
01:42:18U.S. PRESIDENT, SO THIS IS THE
01:42:21PERSON AND THE ADMINISTRATION WHO CANADA WILL HAVE TO CONTINUE
01:42:25TO DEAL WITH ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO TRYING TO SECURE A NEW
01:42:28TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.
01:42:30HERE'S MOVE OF MORE OF WHATO
01:42:36SAY. >> OUR FOCUS HASN'T CHANGED.
01:42:37YESTERDAY WE WENT TO WORK ON
01:42:42ISSUES OF AFFORDABILITY, ON STRENGTHENING THE CANADIAN
01:42:46ECONOMY, DIVERSIFYING OUR
01:42:47TRADING RELATIONSHIPS.
01:42:50THAT WAS OUR FOCUS YESTERDAY AND WILL BE TODAY AND WILL BE THE
01:42:53FOCUS TOMORROW IN THE BUDGET.
01:42:55>> Reporter: LEBLANC POURING
01:42:58COLD WATER ON THE IDEA THAT THE
01:43:00U.S. MID-TERM RESULTS ARE GOING
01:43:02TO DRAMATICALLY CHANGE THE OUTCOME FOR A NEW TRADE
01:43:06AGREEMENT BETWEEN CANADA AND THE U.S. VERY SOON. WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE, OF
01:43:09COURSE, TO SEE HOW THE TALKS PROGRESS OVER THE COMING WEEKS.
01:43:13THE PRESIDENT AND THE PRIME MINISTER SAID THAT THESE TALKS
01:43:16WILL BE ESCALATING IN THE NEAR FUTURE AND THEY'RE HOPING THAT
01:43:19THEY WILL LAND A NEW TRADE DEAL, BUT THERE'S STILL A LOT OF
01:43:23UNKNOWNS AND LEBLANC POINTED OUT IT'S NOT CLEAR IF CANADA WILL
01:43:26HAVE MORE LEVERAGE NOW AND HE WOULD NOT COMMENT TO SAY THAT
01:43:29THIS CHANGES THE DYNAMIC IN THOSE TALKS EITHER.
01:43:32BUT PREMIERS ARE HOPING THAT
01:43:34THIS WILL RESULT IN A NEW
01:43:39FAVOURABLE TRADE DEAL FOR CANADA AND THE U.S.
01:43:42WE ARE HEARING REACTION FROM MANITOBA'S PREMIER WAB KINEW.
01:43:45HE WAS EXCITED ABOUT THE MID-TERMS RESULTS AND HOPES THIS
01:43:49WILL LEAD TO THE U.S. ENDING THE WAR IN IRAN AND ALSO STOPPING
01:43:53TARIFFS AGAINST CANADA.
01:43:54WE'RE ALSO HEARING FROM KINEW'S NEIGHBOUR, SASKATCHEWAN PREMIER
01:43:58SCOTT MOE WHO POSTED HIS OWN
01:43:59STATEMENT REMINDING THE PUBLIC THAT TARIFFS INCREASE COSTS ON
01:44:03BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER.
01:44:06MOE SAYS THAT THE MIDTERM RESULTS WERE DUE AT LEAST IN
01:44:10PART TO THE IMPACT OF HARMFUL
01:44:13TARIFF POLICIES AND SAYS THIS IS NOW AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CANADA TO
01:44:16RE-SET ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE U.S. AND RESTORE FREE AN FAIR
01:44:19TRADE BETWEEN OUR TWO COUNTRIES. HE SAYS THAT CANADA IS READY AND
01:44:22HE HOPES THE U.S. WILL BE AS WELL.
01:44:24FINALLY, WE HAVE REACTION FROM ONTARIO'S PREMIER DOUG FORD WHO
01:44:28SAID THAT HE WAS BASICALLY DOING CARTWHEELS AS HE SAW THE U.S.
01:44:32MID-TERM RESULTS ROLL IN LAST
01:44:35NIGHT BUT ALSO REMINDED THE PUBLIC THAT THE WAR WITH THE
01:44:38U.S. IS STILL ONGOING. >> Aarti: WHAT'S THE
01:44:41OPPOSITION ALSO SAYING ABOUT THE
01:44:45MID-TERM RESULTS AND HOW THEY MAY AFFECT CANADA?
01:44:48>> Reporter: CONSERVATIVE LEADER PIERRE POILIEVRE SPOKE TO REPORTERS THIS MORNING BEFORE
01:44:52HIS PARTY'S CAUCUS MEETING SAYING THAT THESE RESULTS
01:44:55ESSENTIALLY SHOW THAT MOST AMERICANS SIDE WITH CANADA IN
01:44:58THIS TRADE WAR WITH THE U.S. AND HE'S ALSO HOPING THAT THE
01:45:02FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL USE THIS
01:45:04MOMENTUM FROM THE RESULTS TO TRY
01:45:06TO SECURE A NEW TRADE DEAL WITH
01:45:08THE U.S., ONE THEY THAT'S GOR
01:45:14CANADA AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. HERE'S POILIEVRE. >> Pierre Poilievre: WHAT THE
01:45:17MID-TERMS DID DO IS RECONFIRM WHAT I SAID ALL ALONG WHICH IS
01:45:20WE HAVE MASSIVE LEVERAGE IN THE FORM OF THE GOODWILL OF THE
01:45:24AMERICAN PEOPLE. I MEAN AMERICANS HATE THESE
01:45:27TARIFFS. EVERYWHERE I WENT IN THE STATES,
01:45:29DIDN'T MATTER IF IT WAS TEXAS OR
01:45:31DETROIT OR NEW YORK, DEMOCRATS,
01:45:34REPUBLICANS, WORKER OR BUSINESS, UNION OR MANAGEMENT, EVERYBODY
01:45:37HATES THE TARIFFS.
01:45:39WE HAVE TO USE THAT GOODWILL TO
01:45:44PRESSURE FOR TARIFF-FREE TRADE.
01:45:47>> Reporter: WE'LL SEE TO SEE
01:45:49IF IN THE NEW YEAR WHETHER THE
01:45:53DEMOCRATS WILL TRY TO BLOCK OR
01:45:56REVERSE TRUMP'S TARIFF POLICIES AT THIS TIME.
01:45:58ON JANUARY 1ST, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS PLANNING TO
01:46:02INCREASE TARIFFS AGAINST CANADA'S AUTOS FROM 25 TO 50%.
01:46:05>> Aarti: THANKS FOR THIS, OLIVIA. THAT'S THE CBC'S OLIVIA
01:46:09STEFANOVICH REPORTING FROM OTTAWA. >>> PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY
01:46:13AND FINANCE MINISTER FRANÇOIS-PHILIPPE CHAMPAGNE WILL DELIVER THEIR GOVERNMENT'S
01:46:16SECOND BUDGET TOMORROW PROMISING A SERIES OF MEASURES THAT WILL
01:46:19TOUCH ON EVERYTHING FROM DEFENCE TO CULTURE.
01:46:22AND CBC WILL HAVE SPECIAL
01:46:24COVERAGE TOMORROW, OUR CHIEF
01:46:27POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT ROSEMARY BARTON KICKS IT OFF AT FOUR
01:46:30p.m. EASTERN WHEN FINANCE MINISTER CHAMPAGNE TABLES THE DOCUMENT.
01:46:34YOU CAN WATCH THAT ANYWHERE YOU STREAM CBC NEWS AND STICK AROUND
01:46:38ON CBC NEWS NETWORK FOR A SPECIAL EDITION OF "POWER &
01:46:40POLITICS" AT FIVE p.m. EASTERN.
01:46:44DAVID COCHRANE SPEAK TO
01:46:49CHAMPAGNE AND GET REACTION. >> WE'RE GAUGING REACTION FROM
01:46:51ORDINARY CANADIANS TO THE MID-TERMS AND WHAT THIS OUTCOME
01:46:55MEANS TO US HERE IN THIS COUNTRY. THE CBC'S ANGIE SETH HAS BEEN
01:46:59SPEAKING TO DUAL CANADIAN U.S. CITIZENLESS.
01:47:01I UNDERSTAND YOU SPOKE WITH A
01:47:05WOMAN 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
01:47:13CHAPTER THAT'S BEEN AROUND FOR QUITE SOME TIME.
01:47:15WE SPOKE WITH COLLEEN
01:47:18MAFFIE-NIXON WITH THE CHAPTER FOR SIX YEARS A YOUNG CANADIAN,
01:47:21DUAL CITIZEN I SHOULD SAY, FOLLOWING THE MID-TERMS VERY,
01:47:24VERY CLOSELY AND REELING AND FEELING THE EFFECTS FROM THE
01:47:27AMERICAN SIDE AND CANADIAN SIDE AS WELL.
01:47:31HAPPY WITH THE RESULTS WE SAW COME OUT OF THE MID-TERMS AS
01:47:35RESULTS CONTINUE TO COME IN. THERE'S A FEW STATES TO BE
01:47:37DECIDED AND SHE SAID THE RESPONSE WAS AMERICANS WERE
01:47:40LOOKING FOR CHANGE, BUT CANADIANS WERE ALSO NEEDING THAT CHANGE.
01:47:43AND THE BENEFIT NOW WE'RE GOING
01:47:45TO SEE ON BOTH SIDES.
01:47:47HERE'S MORE ON WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY. >> THEY'RE NOT HAPPY WITH HOW
01:47:51THINGS HAVE BEEN GOING. LIFE IS GETTING HARDER FOR
01:47:53EVERYONE IN AMERICA AND IT'S
01:47:57IMPACTING US HERE IN CANADA WHETHER WE'RE AMERICAN OR CANADIAN.
01:48:00HOPEFULLY THE CHANGES WILL START TO COME SOON OVER THE NEXT
01:48:03COUPLE OF YEARS ONCE THE DEMOCRATS ARE SWORN IN IN JANUARY.
01:48:06AND WE'LL SEE THAT START TO SHIFT.
01:48:09>> Reporter: SO IN TERMS OF THAT SHIFT, TALKING TO OTHER
01:48:12CANADIANS AS WELL AS THEY WERE
01:48:15GOING ABOUT THEIR DAY. THEY'RE WATCHING THE MID-TERMS
01:48:18AND THE SENT MET FROM WHEN WE SPOKE TO THEM PRIOR TO THE
01:48:22RESULTS THERE HAS TO BE CHANGE, THERE HAS TO BE A SHIFT.
01:48:24THERE NEEDS FOB A CANADA FIRST OR CONTINUED CANADA FIRST FOCUS
01:48:28HERE. WITH THE RESULTS THERE'S A SENSE
01:48:30OF OPTIMISM, OKAY, MAYBE NOW
01:48:33WE'LL SEE THINGS MOVE MORE IN OUR DIRECTION IT'S AS BEEN VERY,
01:48:36VERY DIFFICULT FOR CANADIANS ON A REGULAR BASIS AND BUSINESSES AS WELL.
01:48:39TAKE A LISTEN TO WHAT A COUPLE OF CANADIANS WE SPOKE TO HAD TO
01:48:43SAY ABOUT THE RESULTS.
01:48:46>> OPTIMISTIC BECAUSE ONCE
01:48:48THINGS ARE NORMALIZED, WE CAN
01:48:51LOOK FORWARD AND THINK FOR THE BRIGHTER SIDE.
01:48:54>> WITH THE CHANGE IN THE SEATS
01:48:57I'M NOT SURE IF THERE'S A STRONG INFLUENCE GOING FORWARD.
01:49:00HOPING FOR CHANGE AND BETTER OUTCOMES. >> Reporter: SO CONTINUING ON
01:49:03THE NARRATIVE OF CHANGE, HOPING THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME CHANGE,
01:49:07I WANT TO JIVE INTO SORT OF THE
01:49:09BUSINESS ASPECT, AARTI. THAT'S REALLY THAT CONVERSATION THAT WE'VE BEEN HEARING IN TERMS
01:49:13WATCH IT MEANS IN TERMS OF THE TRADE WAR. WHAT IT MEANS IN TERMS OF
01:49:17TARIFFS AND HOW BUSINESSES HAVE BEEN IMPACTED.
01:49:19WE'VE BEEN SPEAKING WITH THE CANADIAN FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS.
01:49:22THEY'VE BEEN WATCHING CLOSELY AND SAID ABOUT A THIRD OF THEIR
01:49:26MEMBERS, THOSE SMALL BUSINESSES, HAVE REALLY BEEN FEELING THE PINCH.
01:49:30SOME HAD TO PIVOT. SOME HAD TO SHUT DOWN. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S WELCOME
01:49:34NEWS TO THEM CERTAINLY AND
01:49:37THEY'RE HOPING THAT AGAIN THEY'RE SEEING IT THIS WITH A
01:49:40BIT OF OPTIMISM. THEY'RE CAUTIOUS IN TERMS OF WHAT DOES IT MEAN NOW MOVING
01:49:44FORWARD ESPECIALLY AROUND TARIFFS. TAKE A LISTEN HERE.
01:49:47>> WE'LL HAVE TO SEE IF, FOR
01:49:49EXAMPLE, SOME OF THE DECISIONS
01:49:51REGARDING TARIFFS ARE OVERTURNED.
01:49:54CERTAIN SECTIONS OF U.S. LAW,
01:49:58TAX LAW, WERE INVOLVED WHERE
01:50:00SORT OF TEMPORARY, IS IT GOING
01:50:04TO -- ARE SOME OF THE TARIFFS
01:50:06GOING TO BE REMOVED IN THE
01:50:09SHORT-TERM? THAT'S ONE INTERESTING,
01:50:12IMPORTANT THING TO WATCH. >> Reporter: AND WE'LL BE
01:50:15WATCHING THAT QUICKLY OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS AS THE REPUBLICANS WILL REMAIN IN THE
01:50:19HOUSE AND THE SENATE WITH A MAJORITY THERE. THAT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE UNTIL
01:50:23JANUARY. SO BUSINESSES WATCHING FOR THAT TO SEE WHETHER THAT'S GOING TO
01:50:26PIVOT AND JUST AS A SIDE NOTE IN
01:50:28THIS COUNTRY, AS YOU MENTIONED,
01:50:31AARTI, THE BUDGET WILL BE TABLED TOMORROW. SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, BUSINESS
01:50:34OWNERS IN GENERAL WATCHING CLOSELY TO SEE WHERE THE SUPPORT
01:50:36IS GOING TO BE COMING FROM THE
01:50:39GOVERNMENT FOR THESE BUSINESSES
01:50:41TWO YEARS INTO WHAT'S BEEN A ROLLER COASTER RIDE ON THE
01:50:45ECONOMIC FRONT.
01:50:47>> THE CBC'S ANGIE SETH IN TORONTO. DEMOCRATS MAY HAVE WON CONTROL
01:50:51OF CONGRESS SECURING 228 PLUS SEATS IN THE HOUSE AND ADDING
01:50:54SEVEN TO THE SENATE BUT TWO SENATE RACES REMAIN TOSS UPS.
01:50:58ALASKA AND MISSISSIPPI. VOTES IN THOSE RACES ARE STILL BEING COUNTED AND THE RESULTS
01:51:02MAY NOT BE FINALIZED FOR SOME TIME.
01:51:06DARREN McCAFFREY JOINS US NOW. INTERESTING RACES TO WATCH HERE.
01:51:10START FIRST WITH MISSISSIPPI. >> FASCINATING RACES.
01:51:13I DON'T THINK AARTI YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT MUCH ABOUT AMERICAN
01:51:17DIPLOMATICS TO KNOW THAT MISSISSIPPI HAS BEEN FOR A VERY
01:51:20LONG TIME A DEEP RED STATE.
01:51:22A SOLID REPUBLICAN SEAT.
01:51:24THIS IS A STATE THAT DONALD
01:51:26TRUMP WON BY SOME 20 POINTS ONLY
01:51:29TWO YEARS AGO.
01:51:31AND YET IT IS RAZOR THIN AT THE
01:51:34MOMENT BETWEEN SCOTT COLOM, THE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE THERE FOR THE
01:51:38SENATE SEAT IN MISSISSIPPI UP
01:51:40AGAINST SIN ANY CINDY HYDE .
01:51:45AT THIS HOUR, 43 VOTES BETWEEN
01:51:49THE TWO CANDIDATES. INCREDIBLE.
01:51:50WHEN PEOPLE SAY YOUR VOTE MATTERS, THIS IS AN ELECTION
01:51:54WHERE IT'S A REAL SIGN IT MATTERS.
01:51:56THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI HAS NOT ELECTED A DEMOCRAT TO THE U.S.
01:52:00SENATE SINCE 1982. NOW WE'VE HEARD FROM SCOTT COLOM
01:52:04IN THE LAST HOUR OR SO TALKING
01:52:07ABOUT HOW TIGHT THIS RACE IS. TALKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE
01:52:10COUNT CONTINUES.
01:52:11HAVE A LISTEN.
01:52:15>> LIKE THE PEOPLE THAT MIGHT BE SURPRISED, OUR CAMPAIGN, OUR VOLUNTEERS, THE PEOPLE IN
01:52:19MISSISSIPPI ARE INTO THE NOT SU.
01:52:23WE'RE PREPARED. WE HAD BEEN PLANNING FOR THIS SCENARIO FOR WEEKS.
01:52:27WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF VOLUNTEERS. [ Cheering ]
01:52:30WE HAVE LOCAL LAWYERS AND EACH
01:52:35COUNTY, WE WILL PROTECT THE PROCESS OF THIS ELECTION.
01:52:38WE WILL PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF
01:52:40THIS ELECTION. >> THE CURRENT INCUMBENT HEIDT
01:52:44SMITH WON IN A SPECIAL ELECTION IN 2018 AND RE-ELECTED IN 2020
01:52:48BUT STRUGGLING TO HOLD ON.
01:52:49SHE SAID LAST NIGHT TO HER
01:52:52SUPPORTERS IN THE EARLY HOURS
01:52:56THIS MORNING SHE WOULD CONTINUE TO BE A U.S. SENATOR.
01:53:00IF IT CONTINUES THIS CLOSE, THERE BE QUESTIONS ABOUT
01:53:03RE-COUNTS, CHALLENGES, BECAUSE IT'S REALLY TIGHT THERE.
01:53:05>> Aarti: LET'S NOW LOOK AT
01:53:08THE RACE IN ALASKA.
01:53:10ALSO HAS QUITE A RED HISTORY.
01:53:12>> YEAH, QUITE A RED HISTORY THOUGH THIS ONE WAS EXPECTED TO BE TIGHT.
01:53:15IT'S ONE OF THE STATES THAT THE DEMOCRATS THOUGHT THEY MAY
01:53:19WELWYN AND THAT'S STILL A POSSIBILITY.
01:53:21THIS IS BETWEEN MARY PELTOLA
01:53:26AGAINST THE INCUMBENT DAN SULLIVAN. AGAIN IT'S VERY, VERY CLOSE.
01:53:30BUT ONLY 74% OF THE VOTE COUNTED.
01:53:33THE THOUGH IT SEEMS TO BE TRENDING IN PELTOLA'S DIRECTION.
01:53:37IF AGAIN, A REALLY INTERESTING E
01:53:41AND A STATE THAT HAS BEEN
01:53:45REPUBLICAN BUT THE FOCUS ON THE COST OF LIVING IS ABSOLUTELY
01:53:48CRUCIAL IN ALL OF THIS.
01:53:50WE HEARD FROM PELTOLA AGAIN OVERNIGHT TALKING JUST ABOUT HOW
01:53:54CLOSE THIS RACE IS.
01:53:58>> IT WON'T BE HOURS. IT WON'T BE DAYS. IT WILL BE WEEKS.
01:54:01IT WILL BE WEEKS. WE KNOW. THIS WE KNOW THIS.
01:54:05THIS IS NORMAL. THIS IS ALASKA NORMAL. IT'S GOING TO TAKE A LONG TIME
01:54:08TO MAKE SURE WE'RE COUNTING
01:54:10EVERY VOTE FROM EVERY FAR FLUNG
01:54:14HINTERLAND COMMUNITY, FROM EVERY
01:54:17TINY OUTPOST, FROM ALL OF OUR SERVICE MEMBERS SERVING
01:54:20OVERSEAS, OUR YOUNG PEOPLE GOING TO COLLEGES, WE'RE GOING TO
01:54:24COUNT THEIR VOTES. THEIR VOTES WILL BE COUNTED.
01:54:27THEY WILL BE HEARD.
01:54:29>> Reporter: HE'S NOT GOING TO CHALLENGE THE VOTE IN THE STATE.
01:54:33THERE'S BEEN CONTROVERSY AROUND
01:54:33THE USE OF ANOTHER CANDIDATE DAN
01:54:37J SULLIVAN IS THE REPUBLICAN
01:54:41CANDIDATE, DAN S SULLIVAN WHO HAS NOT GAIN THAT HAD MANY VOTES.
01:54:44I'M NOT SURE HE WOULD HAVE CHANGED THE DIRECTION. IT'S BEEN CONTROVERSIAL IN THAT
01:54:48ELECTION. THERE HE IS ON SCREEN.
01:54:50IF PELTOLA WINS, SHE WILL BECOME
01:54:53ONLY THE SECOND FEMALE
01:54:55INDIGENOUS SENATOR IN AMERICAN
01:54:59HISTORY JOINING PENNY FLANAGAN WOULD WON IN MINNESOTA.
01:55:03>> THAT'S THE CBC'S DARREN McCAFFREY.
01:55:06JD VANCE IS ADMITTING DEFEAT TODAY IN THE MID-TERMS.
01:55:09VANCE IS BLAMING YESTERDAY'S DISMAL RESULTS FOR REPUBLICANS
01:55:13ON THE WAR WITH IRAN. ON SOCIAL MEDIA, HE POSTED THIS BLUNT MESSAGE.
01:55:17THE REASON WE LOST IS THE WAR. THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF SAID SO
01:55:20LAST NIGHT. IF YOU'D LIKE TO ARGUE IT WAS
01:55:23WORTH IT, THAT LOSING THE SENATE
01:55:26FOR SIX YEARS WAS WORTH IT. DO IT.
01:55:30ARGUE IT WAS A WORTHWHILE COST TO PLAY.
01:55:33EVERYONE KNOWS WHY WE LOST AND ANY HONEST CONVERSATION ABOUT
01:55:36WHERE WE GO FROM HERE MUST START THERE.
01:55:39I REMAIN HOPEFUL ABOUT OUR COUNTRY, TO THE PEOPLE PISSEDDED
01:55:43OFF AND WANT TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO, YOU'RE RIGHT.
01:55:46YOU DID TELL US SO.
01:55:48TAKE THAT ENERGY INTO ELECTING REPUBLICANS WHO SHARE YOUR WORLD VIEW.
01:55:52TO THE PEOPLE PISSED AT THE RESULTS, YOU SHOULD BE.
01:55:55>>> OKAY, SO WE TALKED ABOUT HISTORY BEING MADE IN A NUMBER
01:55:59OF DIFFERENT RACES. IT WAS A HISTORIC WIN IN
01:56:03GEORGIA.
01:56:04>> GEORGIA, THIS WIN IS FOR ALL
01:56:13OF US. >> HER ELECTION WILL END MORE
01:56:15THAN TWO DECADES OF REPUBLICAN
01:56:18CONTROL OF THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE.
01:56:20>>> HERE NOW A LOOK AT THAT RACE
01:56:23AN HOW IT SHAPED UP WITH KESHIA
01:56:26LANCE BOTTOMS COMING OUT ON TOP AS WELL.
01:56:28WE WANT TO CONTINUE OUR COVERAGE
01:56:31HERE OF THE U.S. MID-TERM ELECTION RESULTS. THERE'S A LOOK AT CAPITOL HILL
01:56:35WHERE THE BALANCE OF POWER HAS SHIFTED. MORE COVERAGE COMING UP FOR YOU
01:56:38RIGHT HERE ON CBC NEWS NETWORK.
02:00:21[ ♪♪ ] WAR IN IRAN. >> Aarti: HELLO, WELCOME
02:00:24INSIDE THE CBC NEWSROOM. I'M AARTI POLE. AMERICANS VOTED FOR CHANGE IN A
02:00:28BIG WAY IN YESTERDAY'S MID-TERM ELECTIONS.
02:00:30AN HISTORIC BLUE WAVE LANDED DEMOCRATS CONTROL OF BOTH THE
02:00:33HOUSE AND THE SENATE DELIVERING
02:00:35A STUNNING REBUKE OF U.S.
02:00:40PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. SENATE SEATS IN DEEP RED STATES
02:00:41LIKE TEXAS, KANSAS AND SOUTH
02:00:44CAROLINA FLIPPED. DEMOCRATS WILL TAKE CONTROL OF CONGRESS IN JANUARY.
02:00:47THEY ONLY REQUIRED THREE SEATS TO WIN THE HOUSE, SO FAR, THEY
02:00:51HAVE PICKED UP MORE THAN TWO DOZEN.
02:00:53BUT IT COULD TAKE DAYS UNTIL ALL THE RACES ARE DECIDED.
02:00:56BUT IT'S THE SENATE WHERE THE DEMOCRATS MADE A LANDMARK
02:01:00BREAKTHROUGH WINNING SEVEN SEATS FROM THE REPUBLICANS, ALL TOSS
02:01:03UPS GOING THEIR WAY AND DEMOCRATS COULD WIN MORE
02:01:07BUILDING ON THAT SENATE MAJORITY.
02:01:10WE HAVE EXTENSIVE MID-TERM COVERAGE FOR YOU THIS HOUR WITH
02:01:14OUR CBC NEWS TEAM, MARK CARCASOLE IS IN WASHINGTON
02:01:17LOOKING AT THE BIG PICTURE AND HOW THIS IS PLAYING OUT IN THE
02:01:20U.S. CAPITOL ONE DAY AFTER THE ELECTION.
02:01:22AND OLIVIA STEFANOVICH IS IN OUR
02:01:25NATION'S CAPITAL, SHE WILL HAVE FRESH POLITICAL REACTION FROM
02:01:29CANADIAN LEADERS INCLUDING WHAT THIS MIGHT MEAN FOR TRADE TALKS
02:01:31WITH THE U.S. GOING FORWARD.
02:01:34>>> LET'S BEGIN IN WASHINGTON WITH PARK, HE'S JOINING US LIVE
02:01:37FROM CAPITOL HILL. MARK, MEMBERS OF BOTH PARTIES
02:01:40ARE OFFERING THEIR THOUGHTS ON THE RESULTS TODAY AND WHAT HAPPENED.
02:01:43WHO ARE WE HEARING FROM?
02:01:45>> Reporter: WE'VE HEARD FROM
02:01:48THE HIGHER RANKING MEMBERS IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE FROM THE
02:01:50DEMOCRAT PARTY, THE HIGHEST
02:01:52RANKING MEMBERS ALREADY, AS WELL
02:01:55AS VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE WHO OFFERED THOUGHTS.
02:01:57STARTING WITH THE DEMOCRATS, THE REACTION OBVIOUSLY A VERY HAPPY
02:02:01DAY FOR MEMBERS OF THE
02:02:04DEMOCRATIC PARTY, CELEBRATING
02:02:06THE FACT THAT THEY'VE TAKEN CONTROL OF CONGRESS OVERALL.
02:02:09WHAT THAT MEANS IS SOMETHING THEY THEMSELVES ARE PARSING.
02:02:12SPEAKING ABOUT IT, BUT SPEAKING IN GENERAL TERMS.
02:02:15THE DEMOCRATS, YES, DO HAVE THE
02:02:17POWER TO PASS LEGISLATION NOW, BUT ANYTHING THAT THEY PASS
02:02:20WOULD HAVE TO RECEIVE PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL. WE'LL GET INTO A LITTLE BIT MORE
02:02:24ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS IN THE MINUTES TO COME.
02:02:26BUT THEY ALSO NOW HAVE THE POWER
02:02:28TO BLOCK ANY REPUBLICAN
02:02:32LEGISLATION WHICH ALLOWS THEM TO STALL, PUT A STALEMATE INTO
02:02:35CONGRESS AND EFFECTIVELY STOP
02:02:37FOR TWO YEARS FOR THE MOST PART THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S AGENDA.
02:02:40NOT ENTIRELY, BUT IN WIDE PART.
02:02:44BUT WHERE THEY HAVE GREAT POWER
02:02:45RIGHT NOW IS IN THEIR ABILITY TO
02:02:48LAUNCH INVESTIGATIONS AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP, AGAINST SOME OF
02:02:51HIS COLLEAGUES, ASSOCIATES,
02:02:53SUBJECT THEM TO CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT.
02:02:55THE TRUMP FAMILY LIKE HIS SONS,
02:02:58DON JUNIOR, ERIC AS WELL AS HIS
02:03:00SON-IN-LAW JARED KUSHNER LIKELY TO FACE INCREASED SCRUTINY OVER
02:03:04THEIR BUSINESS AND POLITIC ALTICE.
02:03:07ROBERT GARCIA EXPECTED TO BE THE CHEMOTHERAPY OF THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE MADE IT
02:03:11CLEAR LAST NIGHT THAT THAT'S LIKELY WHERE THINGS ARE GOING.
02:03:13TWO WORDS, ALL CAPITAL, HE WROTE
02:03:15TO THE PRESIDENT, LAWYER UP.
02:03:19EARLIER TODAY, WE HEARD FROM
02:03:22CHUCK SCHUMER WHO SAYS YES THEY'LL BE TAKING THE POWERS OF
02:03:25INVESTIGATION VERY SERIOUSLY IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
02:03:29>> MAKE NO MISTAKE.
02:03:32WHENEVER TRUMP DEFIES THE WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OR THE
02:03:36LAW, WE WILL LAUNCH INVESTIGATIONS, TAKE HIM TO
02:03:38COURT AND ENTANGLE HIM IN
02:03:40LEGISLATIVE RAZOR WIRE.
02:03:42THE DAYS OF TRUMP'S SUBCAN'T
02:03:46SENATE ARE OVER. >> IN THAT PRESS CONFERENCE,
02:03:49SENATOR SCHUMER LAID OUT THREE
02:03:52PRIORITIES FOR THE DEMOCRATS NOW THAT THEY CONTROL THE SENATE. ONE BRINGING DOWN THE COST OF
02:03:56LIVING, TWO, CLEANING UP CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT. THAT'S WHERE THAT INVESTIGATIVE
02:04:00POWER WILL COME IN, AND, THREE,
02:04:03CHECKING TRUMP'S CHAOS AT HOME AND ABROAD AS HE PUT IT.
02:04:06WHEN IT COMES TO THE LEGISLATIVE POWERS THAT THEY HAVE, AGAIN,
02:04:09DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF THOSE THREE PRIORITIES THEY CAN ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISH.
02:04:13OF KEEP IN MIND THE PRESIDENT ALSO HAS EXECUTIVE POWER.
02:04:16HE CAN GET AROUND CONGRESS WITH
02:04:20ORDS, IT'S SOMETHING HE'S DONE
02:04:23MULTIPLE TIMES INCLUDING THE TARIFFS THAT AFFECTED OUR AND
02:04:26THE AMERICAN ECONOMIES SO MUCH
02:04:28OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
02:04:30>> Aarti: WHAT HAS THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT HAD
02:04:34SO SAY SO FAR? >> Reporter: PRESIDENT TRUMP
02:04:38HAS NOT SAID ANYTHING TODAY.
02:04:39HE WAS VERY VOCAL ON SOCIAL
02:04:42MEDIA YESTERDAY RAGING AT THE RESULTS.
02:04:44HE CALLED INTO A COUPLE OF
02:04:47AMERICAN MEDIA COMPANIES AND SAID HE WOULD ACCEPT THE RESULTS
02:04:50BUT HE ALSO TALKED ABOUT HIS PLANS AND PLANS HE LAID OUT
02:04:53PREVIOUSLY TO USE HIS VETO POWER
02:04:56TO EFFECTIVELY KIBOSH ANYTHING
02:04:59THAT THE DEMOCRATS MANAGE TO GET THROUGH CONGRESS. THAT IS THAT PRESIDENTIAL
02:05:02APPROVAL I SPOKE OF EARLIER. SO IT'S CLEAR WHERE HE'S GOING
02:05:06WITH THIS. IN A POST ON TRUTH SOCIAL, HE
02:05:08POSTED A PHOTO OF A MAGA STYLE RED BASEBALL CAP.
02:05:11YOU BUT INSTEAD OF MAKE AMERICA
02:05:14GREAT AGAIN IT HAD IN CAPITAL
02:05:16LETTERS THE WORD VETO IN WHITE
02:05:18ON T THE PRESIDENT LAYING OUT WHERE HE STANDS HERE.
02:05:22VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE WITHIN THE LAST HOUR OR SO PUT A RATHER
02:05:26LENGTHY POST ON X WITH WHERE HE TALKED ABOUT THE DAY THAT WAS,
02:05:29HE WAS SPEAKING TO FRIENDS RUNNING THE NUMBERS AND HE KNEW
02:05:33IT WAS INTENTIONALLY GOING TO BE A BLOODBATH FOR THE REPUBLICANS
02:05:36IN THE MID-TERMS. HE SAYS, QUOTE, THE REASON WE
02:05:40LOST IS THE WAR. THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF SAID SO LAST NIGHT.
02:05:43IF YOU'D LIKE TO ARGUE IT WAS WORTH IT, THAT LOSING THE SENATE
02:05:47FOR SIX YEARS WAS WORTH IT, DO SO.
02:05:49ARGUE THAT IT WAS A WORTHWHILE
02:05:55COST TO PAY. REPUBLICANS TURNED OUT.
02:05:58HE'S NOT CONCERNED BY THE TURN OUT.
02:06:00THOSE WHO VOTE FORD TRUMP VANCE IN 2024 VOTED FOR DEMOCRATS THIS
02:06:04TIME AROUND AND THAT'S A SHIP
02:06:07THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS TO RIGHT THE NEXT TIME AROUND. >> THANK YOU FOR.
02:06:10THIS THAT'S THE CBC'S MARK CARCASOLE IN WASHINGTON.
02:06:14>>> THE U.S. MID-TERM ELECTION WAS CLOSELY WATCHED BY CANADIAN
02:06:17POLITICIANS TOO. THE CBC'S OLIVIA STEFANOVICH IS
02:06:20TRACKING THAT REACTION. SHE JOINS ME LIVE FROM OTTAWA.
02:06:24WHAT WILL THE RESULTS MEAN FOR CANADA'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNITED STATES?
02:06:27>> Reporter: WELL, THE MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR CANADA
02:06:30U.S. TRADE DOMINIC LeBLANC WHO
02:06:32WE'VE SEEN GO DOWN TO WASHINGTON
02:06:35DC SEVERAL TIMES TO TRY TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE U.S. ON A NEW
02:06:38TRADE DEAL BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES, HE SPOKE TO REPORTERS
02:06:41TODAY, AARTI, AND HE SAID THAT HE'S BASICALLY POURING COLD
02:06:44WATER ON THE IDEA THAT THE U.S.
02:06:47MID-TERM RESULTS, THE BLUE TSUNAMI WE SAW IN THE U.S. IS
02:06:50GOING TO RESULT IN AN IMMEDIATE
02:06:52OR AT LEAST IN THE NEAR FUTURE A
02:06:55DRAMATIC CHANGE FOR THIS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.
02:06:59LEBLANC POINTED OUT TO REPORTERS TODAY THAT THE NEW CONGRESS AND
02:07:03SENATE, THEY ONLY SIT IN JANUARY
02:07:05AND THAT DONALD TRUMP REMAINS THE U.S. PRESIDENT.
02:07:08SO THIS IS THE PERSON WHO CANADA WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE TO DEAL
02:07:11WITH WHEN IT COMES TO ANYTHING RELATED TO CANADA AND THE U.S.
02:07:15AND ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO
02:07:18TRADE NEGOTIATIONS MOVING FORWARD.
02:07:21HERE'S WHAT ELSE LEBLANC SAID. >> THE FOCUS HASN'T EXCHANGED.
02:07:24YESTERDAY WE WENT TO WORK ON ISSUES OF AFFORDABILITY FOR
02:07:28CANADIANS, ON BUILDING MAJOR PROJECTS, ON STRENGTHENING THE
02:07:31CANADIAN ECONOMY AND DIVERSIFYING OUR TRADING RELATIONSHIPS.
02:07:35THAT WAS OUR FOCUS YESTERDAY. THIS IS ACTUALLY OUR FOCUS TODAY.
02:07:39AND WILL BE THE FOCUS TOMORROW
02:07:43IN THE BUDGET. >> Reporter: HE WOULD NOT SAY
02:07:46WHETHER THE MID-TERM RESULTS WILL GIVE CANADA MORE LEVERAGE
02:07:49IN TRADE TALKS, BUT PREMIERS ARE
02:07:52HOPING THAT THEY WILL. ONTARIO PREMIER DOUG FORD JUST
02:07:55REACTED TO THE MID-TERM RESULTS
02:07:58AND HERE'S WHAT HE'S SAYING.
02:08:02>> Premier Doug Ford: I WAS
02:08:04DOING CARTWHEELS DOWN THE
02:08:10STREET.
02:08:23THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SPOKE. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SPOKE OP A COUPLE OF ISSUES. COST OF LIVING. COST OF GAS.
02:08:27THE WAR IN IRAN, BUT MOST IMPORTANT HIS TARIFFS.
02:08:29THAT'S ALL TIED IN THE COST OF LIVING. >> FORD POINTED OUT THE WAR WITH
02:08:32THE U.S. IS NOT OVER. THERE'S A LOT OF WORK TO DO ON
02:08:36BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER TO TRY TO PUSH THIS OVER THE FINISH
02:08:40LINE AND SECURE A FAVOURABLE TRADE DEAL FOR CANADA.
02:08:43AND FORD SAID THAT HE WILL BE DIRECTING HIS CABINET MINISTERS
02:08:47TO GO TO WASHINGTON DC TO CONNECT WITH NEW MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND THE SENATE AS SOON
02:08:50AS POSSIBLE. >> Aarti: WE CONTINUE TO WAIT
02:08:54TO SEE WHAT THE PRIME MINISTER HIMSELF WILL SAY IN REACTION TO THE RESULTS.
02:08:58BUT IN THE INTERIM LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT THE OPPOSITION LEADER
02:09:01PIERRE POILIEVRE HAD TO SAY SO FAR. WHAT DOES HE THINK THIS MIGHT
02:09:04CHANGE ABOUT THE U.S. CANADA RELATIONSHIP? >> Reporter: CONSERVATIVE
02:09:07LEADER PIERRE POILIEVRE IS URGING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO
02:09:11USE THESE RESULTS AS MOMENTUM IN
02:09:14THESE TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE U.S., TO LEAN IN AND TO TRY
02:09:17TO SECURE THE BEST POSSIBLE DEAL
02:09:19AT THIS MOMENT FOR THIS COUNTRY.
02:09:22HERE'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
02:09:33AMERICAN PEOPLE. I MEAN AMERICANS HATE THESE
02:09:36TARIFFS.
02:09:38EVERYWHERE I WENT IN THE STATES,
02:09:42IT DIDN'T MATTER IF IT WAS TEXAS OR DETROIT OR NEW YORK, DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, WORKER
02:09:45OR BUSINESS, UNION OR MANAGEMENT, EVERYBODY HATES THE
02:09:48TARIFFS. WE HAVE TO USE THAT GOODWILL TO
02:09:51PRESSURE FOR TARIFF-FREE TRADE.
02:09:57>> Reporter: SO EVER SINCE THE
02:10:01TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BEGAN ITS TARIFF POLICY, THE CANADIAN SIDE
02:10:03HAS BEEN URGING THE AMERICANS
02:10:05AND TRYING TO CONVINCE THEM THAT
02:10:08THESE TARIFFS HURT PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER. AMERICANS, THEY DRIVE UP THE
02:10:12COST OF LIVING FOR PEOPLE IN THE U.S., AND CANADIANS CAN NOW
02:10:16POINT TO THE RESULTS AS PROOF
02:10:17THAT THE AMERICANS ARE UNHAPPY WITH THIS TRADE WAR.
02:10:21THE QUESTION NOW IS WHETHER THE
02:10:23U.S. PRESIDENT WILL BE LISTENINN
02:10:25AND ACTUALLY FOLLOW THROUGH AND ACTUALLY MAKE SOME CHANGES HERE
02:10:29FOR NOT ONLY THE CANADIAN SIDE,
02:10:30BUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
02:10:33>> Aarti: CBC'S OLIVIA
02:10:35STEFANOVICH IN OTTAWA.
02:10:38>>> OKAY, AND FROM OTTAWA WE DO WANT TO TAKE YOU NOW TO THE U.S.
02:10:42WHERE AS YOU CAN SEE THERE,
02:10:45HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADER HAKEEM
02:10:48JEFFRIES IS WAITING TO SPEAK FOLLOWING THE MONUMENTAL SWEEP
02:10:51THAT HAPPENED FOR THE DEMOCRATS IN THE U.S. MID-TERM ELECTIONS.
02:10:55SO LET'S LISTEN IN.
02:10:59>> 35 RACES TOO CLOSE TO CALL OR OUT STANDING.
02:11:02AM WE WON IN AT LEAST 21
02:11:05DISTRICTS THAT DONALD TRUMP WON BY DOUBLE DIGITS OR MORE.
02:11:08THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED IN THE
02:11:1021st CENTURY.
02:11:13FURTHERMORE, THE D TRIPLE C INVESTED IN 35 RACE THAT IS
02:11:16FLIPPED FROM RED TO BLUE. SO FAR.
02:11:18PROVIDING THAT OUR STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS AND LASER FOCUSED
02:11:22DECISIONS ON WHERE TO EXPAND THE
02:11:25MAP FROM THE START OF THE CYCLE PAID OFF.
02:11:28THESE RESULTS ILLUSTRATE ACROSS THE BOARD HOW READY THE AMERICAN
02:11:30PEOPLE ARE FOR CHANGE.
02:11:33HOW TIRED THEY ARE OF THE BROKEN PROMISES FROM REPUBLICANS.
02:11:37VOTERS SENT A MESSAGE THAT THEY ARE EAGER FOR A CONGRESS THAT
02:11:40WILL, AGAIN, BE AN INDEPENDENT AND CO-EQUAL BRANCH OF
02:11:44GOVERNMENT. ASSERTING OUR OVERSIGHT AUTHORITY AND EXERCISING THE
02:11:47POWER OF THE PURSE TO PUT A
02:11:50MEANINGFUL CHECK ON THIS ADMINISTRATION. AND WHILE THE REBUKE AGAINST TWO
02:11:54YEARS OF REPUBLICAN RULE WAS
02:11:56CLEAR ACROSS THE ENTIRE COUNTRY, MAKE NO MISTAKE.
02:12:00WE WON THE MAJORITY DISTRICT BY
02:12:03DISTRICT BECAUSE OF OUR AMAZING CANDIDATES.
02:12:06OUR CANDIDATES WERE THE SECRET TO OUR SUCCESS AND AS I HAVE
02:12:10SAID OVER AND OVER, THEY ARE OUR
02:12:13SECRET SAUCE. WHILE THEY ALL SHARE A PASSION
02:12:16TO SERVE, THEY ARE ALL VERY UNIQUE.
02:12:18THERE WERE NO COOKIE CUTTER CANDIDATES. EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM IS
02:12:22DEEPLY CONNECTED TO THEIR
02:12:24DISTRICTS IN THEIR OWN WAY.
02:12:26WE HAD FIREFIGHTERS, MINISTERS,
02:12:30MAYORS, VETERANS, TEACHERS,
02:12:34FARMERS, PROSECUTORS, UNION LEADERS, LAW ENFORCEMENT,
02:12:36DOCTORS, JOURNALISTS, AND EVEN A
02:12:38GRAMMY AWARD WINNING MUSICIAN.
02:12:41THEY WERE ALL ABLE TO TRANSCEND
02:12:45PARTISAN POLITICS IN PART BECAUSE THEY ARE DEEPLY ROOTED
02:12:47IN THEIR COMMUNITIES, BUT ALSO
02:12:50BECAUSE THEY ARE DRIVEN BY A GENUINE DESIRE TO REPRESENT
02:12:54EVERY PERSON IN THEIR DISTRICT.
02:12:57DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, AND INDEPENDENTS.
02:13:00THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THE JOB TITLE IS REPRESENTATIVE, NOT
02:13:04RUBBER STAMP.
02:13:05IN THE 120th CONGRESS UNDER
02:13:08THE LEADERSHIP OF SPEAKER HAKEEM
02:13:11JEFFRIES, WE'RE GOING TO WASTE
02:13:12NO TIME IN GETTING TO WORK AND
02:13:16PURSUING AN AFFORDABILITY AGENDA, ROOTING OUT THE CULTURE
02:13:18OF CORRUPTION THAT HAS FESTERED IN WASHINGTON DC THE PAST TWO YEARS.
02:13:22I AM SO HONOURED TO BE HERE WITH THIS INCREDIBLE TEAM OF PEOPLE
02:13:26WHO HAVE LED THE WAY, BUT NO ONE
02:13:29MORE SO THAN OUR LEADER THE
02:13:32FUTURE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE,
02:13:33HAKEEM JEFFRIES.
02:13:38>> GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. WHAT AN HONOUR AND PRIVILEGE TO
02:13:41BE HERE WITH ALL OF MY
02:13:43DISTINGUISHED COLLEAGUES IN
02:13:45LEADERSHIP RIGHT AFTER THIS
02:13:48STUNNING REBUKE OF MAGA EXTREMISM AND A GREAT NIGHT FOR
02:13:52THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
02:13:54I'M SO THANKFUL FOR SUSAN, HER
02:13:58EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP AND
02:14:01STEWARDSHIP AS OUR FIELD GENERAL
02:14:06FOR THE D TRIPLE C HAS BROUGHT US TO THIS MOMENT.
02:14:09ONE OF THE FIRST DECISIONS THAT I HAD TO MAKE AS THE NEWLY
02:14:13ELECTED HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADER
02:14:16WAS TO ASK SUSAN TO SERVE AS THE
02:14:20CHAIR OF THE D TRIPLE C.
02:14:22I'M GLAD THAT I ASKED AND I'M
02:14:25EVEN MORE THANKFUL THAT SHE ACCEPTED.
02:14:28SHE'S DONE AN EXTRAORDINARY JOB
02:14:30AND WE'RE DEEPLY APPRECIATIVE.
02:14:34MIKE JOHNSON WAS CORRECT.
02:14:38THE POLLS WERE WRONG.
02:14:41IT WASN'T SIMPLY A BLUE WAVE.
02:14:43IT WAS AN AMERICAN TSUNAMI.
02:14:48HOUSE DEMOCRATS HAVE DECISIVELY
02:14:52TAKEN BACK CONTROL OF THE CONGRESS.
02:14:55WE WILL WIN AT LEAST 255 SEATS
02:15:03IF NOT MORE ONCE EVERY VOTE HAS
02:15:06BEEN TALLIED.
02:15:08IT'S A HISTORIC MAJORITY IN THE
02:15:1121st CENTURY. DEMOCRATS HAVE TAKEN BACK
02:15:14CONTROL OF THE SENATE, DEMOCRATS
02:15:17HAVE WON GOVERNOR SHIPS ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
02:15:21WE'VE FLIPPED LEGISLATIVE CHAMBERS IN THE NORTH, IN THE
02:15:24SOUTH, IN THE EAST, IN THE WEST,
02:15:25AND IN THE MIDWEST.
02:15:28IT WAS A GREAT VICTORY FOR THE
02:15:31AMERICAN PEOPLE.
02:15:33THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE CHOSEN
02:15:37THE ECONOMY OVER EXTREMISM.
02:15:39THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE CHOSEN
02:15:42HOPE OVER HATRED.
02:15:44THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE CHOSEN
02:15:48COMMON SENSE OVER CORRUPTION,
02:15:52CHAOS AND CRUELTY.
02:15:55THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE CHOSEN
02:15:59HOUSE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY
02:16:01WANT TO SEE A DRAMATIC CHANGE IN
02:16:04DIRECTION AND THAT'S EXACTLY
02:16:06WHAT HOUSE DEMOCRATS WILL
02:16:09DELIVER BEGINNING ON DAY ONE.
02:16:12WE'VE WE'VE PROMISED TO FIGHTN
02:16:18AFFORDABLE AMERICA AND THAT'S WHAT WE'LL DO.
02:16:21WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING ALL
02:16:23OF THESE EXTRAORDINARY PATRIOTIC
02:16:25CANDIDATES WHO FLIPPED SEATS ALL
02:16:29ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND WE LOOK
02:16:31FORWARD TO WELCOMING BACK OUR
02:16:37EXTRAORDINARY BATTLEGROUND INCUMBENTPS.
02:16:38EVERY SINGLE ONE OF WHOM
02:16:43PREVAILED UNLIKE ANYTHING WE'VE
02:16:45EVER REALLY SEEN IN A MID-TERM
02:16:51ELECTION IN MODERN AMERICAN
02:16:53HISTORY.
02:16:56WE'RE HUMBLED BY THE OUTCOME AND WE KNOW WE HAVE TO UNDERTAKE
02:17:00WITH THE SERIOUSNESS OF PURPOSE
02:17:03A RELENTLESS EFFORT TO MAKE LIFE
02:17:07MORE AFFORDABLE FOR EVERYDAY
02:17:11AMERICANS, FOR WORKING CLASS AMERICANS, FOR MIDDLE CLASS
02:17:15AMERICANS, AND FOR ALL THOSE WHO ASPIRE TO BE PART OF THE MIDDLE
02:17:19CLASS.
02:17:20WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT HARD FOR
02:17:24EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN, WHEREVER
02:17:28YOU MAY RESIDE. WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT HARD FOR
02:17:32SMALL TOWN AMERICA. WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT HARD FOR RURAL AMERICA.
02:17:35WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT HARD FOR URBAN AMERICA.
02:17:39WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT HARD FOR THE HEARTLAND OF AMERICA.
02:17:41WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT HARD FOR
02:17:43BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES ALL THROUGHOUT AMERICA.
02:17:46THIS IS A VICTORY FOR THE
02:17:48AMERICAN PEOPLE AND WE SHOULD
02:17:52NEVER DOUBT THE RESILIENCE, THE
02:17:57CHARACTER, THE COURAGE AND THE
02:17:59CONVICTION OF THE AMERICAN
02:18:02PEOPLE TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
02:18:08IT'S NOW MY HONOUR TO YIELD TO
02:18:11ONE OF MY REALLY GOOD FRIENDS
02:18:12AND A CLASSMATE OF MINE --
02:18:15>> HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADER HAKEEM JEFFRIES SPEAKING ABOUT
02:18:18THE RESULTS OF THE U.S. MID-TERM ELECTIONS WHERE WE SAW, OF
02:18:22COURSE, DEMOCRATS RETAKE CONTROL OF CONGRESS.
02:18:25HE REITERATED SOME OF THE PRIORITIES THAT WE HAD HEARD
02:18:28EARLIER FROM CHUCK SCHUMER TALKING ABOUT HOW THE PRIORITIES
02:18:31FOR THE DEMOCRATS GOING FORWARD
02:18:33WILL FOCUS ON COST OF LIVING AS
02:18:38WELL AS ACCOUNTABILITY AND ALSO ENDING CONFLICTS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
02:18:40I WANT TO BRING IN THE CBC'S MARK CARCASOLE LISTENING IN TO
02:18:44HAKEEM JEFFRIES. YOU KNOW, SORT OF A BIT OF A
02:18:47VICTORY LAP FOR THE DEMOCRATS AS THEY ARE RELISHING IN THE
02:18:51VICTORY THAT THEY SAW THERE AND HE CALLED IT AN AMERICAN TSUNAMI
02:18:54WITH A HISTORIC MAJORITY.
02:18:56BUT ALSO REITERATED THE FIGHT
02:18:59FOR AN AFFORDABLE AMERICA.
02:19:00>> Reporter:
02:19:03>> Reporter: IT HAS TO BE A FIGHT. EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE CONTROL OF
02:19:07CONGRESS AS WE'VE BEEN TELLING YOU IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE DEMOCRATS CAN TURN AROUND
02:19:11TOMORROW AND START TO DRIVE THEIR AGENDA.
02:19:14IT'S GOING TO BE DIFFICULT FOR THEM. THEY HAVE TO -- IF THEY WANT TO
02:19:17GET ANYTHING PASSED THROUGH CONGRESS, FORM PARTNERSHIPS,
02:19:21KEEP IN MIND THAT FIRST OFF THEY DON'T TAKE CONTROL OF CONGRESS
02:19:25UNTIL JUNE. SO PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND
02:19:29THE REPUBLICS HAVE CONTROL OF CONGRESS FOR TWO MONTHS BEFORE THAT HAPPENS.
02:19:32ONCE THE DEMOCRATS DO TAKE CONTROL, THE PRESIDENT WILL HAVE
02:19:36THE ABILITY TO VETO ANY LEGISLATION THAT THEY PUT FORWARD.
02:19:39AT THE SAME TIME, THEY CAN BLOCK ANY REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION THAT GOES THROUGH.
02:19:42THAT IS ONE OF THE POWERS THEY HAVE.
02:19:46IF THEY WANT TO PASS THEIR OWN LEGISLATION, THE DEMOCRATS WILL
02:19:48HAVE TO FORM PARTNERSHIPS WITH SOME REPUBLICANS TO FORM A
02:19:52TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY TO GET AROUND THAT PRESIDENTIAL VETO. AND THAT DOESN'T EVEN ACCOUNT
02:19:56FOR THE FACT THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS EXECUTIVE POWER TO SIGN
02:19:59ORDERS TO GET AROUND CONGRESS AND DO WHAT HE PLEASES.
02:20:03BUT ONE POWER THAT THE DEMOCRATS
02:20:06WILL HAVE AND THEY WILL HAVE IT IMMEDIATELY ONCE THEY TAKE POWER
02:20:09IN EARLY JANUARY AND HAVE SAID
02:20:12AND HAKEEM JEFFRIES ALLUDED TO IT TOO, THEY'LL BE USING IS
02:20:16THEIR ABILITY TO INVESTIGATE AND HAVE CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT
02:20:20OVER PRESIDENT TRUMP, OVER REPUBLICANS, OVER SOME OF
02:20:22PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FAMILY TIES AND BUSINESS TIES.
02:20:25THEY WILL BE PUTTING INTENSE SCRUTINY ON SOME OF THOSE
02:20:28BUSINESS AND POLITIC ALTICE F
02:20:35HIS FAMILY, DON JUNIOR, ERIC, JARED KUSHNER.
02:20:39THE DAY AFTER THE HISTORIC SWEEP BY THE DEMOCRATS TO MOVE INTO
02:20:43THE CONTROL OF CONGRESS, HAKEEM
02:20:48JEFFRIES WILL SOON MAKE HISTORY. COME JANUARY, WHEN THE DEMOCRATS
02:20:51TAKE CONTROL OF CONGRESS, HE'S NOW THE HOUSE MINORITY LEADER,
02:20:55HE'LL BECOME THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE AND BE THE FIRST BLACK
02:20:58SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE IN U.S. HISTORY. SO, YES, VERY MUCH THE DEMOCRATS
02:21:01TAKING A VICTORY LAP TODAY.
02:21:03MAKING A LOT OF PROMISES, BUT
02:21:06HOW EASY IT'S GOING TO BE TO
02:21:08KEEP THE PROMISE OF AN AFFORDABLE AMERICA FOR ALL
02:21:10AMERICANS, WILLING SEE IN WE WIY
02:21:15AND THE TWO YEARS BEYOND THAT.
02:21:17>> THE CBC'S A MARK MARK CAN WASHINGTON.
02:21:20IT WAS A MONUMENTAL WIN FOR THE DEMOCRATS, ESPECIALLY IN STATES LIKE MICHIGAN.
02:21:24ABDUL EL-SAYED DEFEATED REPUBLICAN MIKE ROGERS IN A
02:21:26BITTER BATTLE FOR THE STATE'S OPEN SENATE SEAT.
02:21:30MAKING EL-SAYED THE FIRST ASYLUM SENATOR IN U.S. HISTORY.
02:21:34HIS WIN IS CONSIDERED A BREAKTHROUGH FOR THE PROGRESSIVE
02:21:38WING IN A CRUCIAL SWING STATE.
02:21:41NOW ROGERS WAS ENDORSED BY
02:21:44DONALD TRUMP AND HAD BACKED THE
02:21:47PRESIDENT'S TARIFF POLICY ANDÚJAR.
02:21:50HE BROKE WITH TRUMP ON THE CLOSING DAYS OF THE CAMPAIGN.
02:21:54WE REACHED THE DEPUTY
02:21:59EDITORIAL -- I WANT TO GET YOUR
02:22:00REACTION TO THE RESULTS.
02:22:04>> WELL, THEY WEREN'T ALL THAT DIFFERENT THAN I THAT YOU HAD
02:22:07THEY'D BE BUT A BIT MORE SUPPORT
02:22:10FOR ABDUL THAN I THOUGHT WE'D
02:22:13SEE AT THE END OF THE DAY. MICHIGAN WENT FAR LEFT ACROSS
02:22:16THE BOARD IN ALL OF ITS RACES.
02:22:18I THOUGHT THE ROGERS RACE MIGHT
02:22:20BE AN OUTLIER BECAUSE OF HOW
02:22:27CONTENTIOUS IT WAS.
02:22:27WE HAVE A BIG DELEGATION OF
02:22:31MICHIGAN FOLKS THAT ARE
02:22:36DEMOCRATS. >> WHAT ABOUT ABDUL EL-SAYED, WHAT DO WE MAKE OF HIS VICTORY
02:22:40IN.
02:22:40>> THIS BECAME A REFERENDUM ON
02:22:45DONALD TRUMP PARTLY BECAUSE HE ASKED TO BE ON THE BALLOT.
02:22:49ABDUL BROUGHT AN ENERGY THAT WAS VERY ANTI-RUMP AND REALLY I
02:22:53THINK MATCHED WHAT PEOPLE FELT ABOUT THIS MOMENT,
02:22:56AFFORDABILITY, HEALTH CARE, MONEY IN POLITICS.
02:22:59THAT WAS ABDUL'S MESSAGE AND THE
02:23:02THREE PRONGED APPROACH SEEMED TO
02:23:04STICK WITH PEOPLE.
02:23:07MIKE ROGERS' MESSAGE WAS MUDDLED
02:23:10ALONG WITH REPUBLICANS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AND HE
02:23:12WASN'T ABLE TO PRESENT A CLEAR
02:23:15MESSAGE OF WHAT REPUBLICANS STAND FOR TWO YEARS INTO TRUMP.
02:23:17>> Aarti: WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE TOP ISSUES, WE HAVE ON THIS
02:23:21SIDE OF THE BORDER TALKED TO A LOT OF PEOPLE IN MICHIGAN,
02:23:24SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE IT'S A BORDER STATE. AFFORDABILITY TOP OF MIND.
02:23:27BUT A LOT OF INDUSTRIES TOO IMPACTED BY THE TRADE WAR WITH
02:23:31CANADA AND WE SAW ROGERS LEAN
02:23:33INTO THAT AS WE DISCUSSED, LATER
02:23:36INTO THE CAMPAIGN AS WELL.
02:23:37HOW MUCH OF A ROLE DID THAT PLAY?
02:23:41>> I THINK THE TARIFFS WERE HUGE.
02:23:44I THINK TRADE WAS A BIG FACTOR.
02:23:47MAYBE NOT QUITE AS MUCH BECAUSE IT DOESN'T IMPACT EVERYONE IN
02:23:51THEIR DAILY BUYING AND SELLING. BUT THESE ISSUES WERE HUGE FOR
02:23:55MICHIGAN VOTERS AND I THINK THE THINGS THAT TRUMP DID, THE WAR
02:23:57IN IRAN, THE GAS PRICES, THE
02:23:59PRICE OF DIESEL, THESE THINGS DISPROPORTIONATELY ACTUALLY
02:24:03IMPACTED THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR HIM IN 2024.
02:24:06AND WE FELT THAT ACUTELY HERE
02:24:10BEING SO CLOSE TO CANADA WITH JUST THE FRAYEDED TENSION AND
02:24:13EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WENT ALONG WITH T IT WAS A HUGE ISSUE IN THIS CAMPAIGN.
02:24:17I HAVE NO DOUBT IT'S PART OF WHY
02:24:19ABDUL WON AND I KNOW THAT
02:24:25BIPARTISAN TROOPS WERE
02:24:26FRUSTRATED WITH THE ANGST THAT
02:24:30TRUMP CREATED WITH CANADA. >> YOU'VE BEEN INCREDIBLY BUS
02:24:34OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS.
02:24:36IT'S A CONTENTION RACE AND THE
02:24:38DEVELOPMENT OF HALEY STEVENS
02:24:43ENDORSING THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE HERE MIKE ROGERS.
02:24:45DID THAT HURT OR HELP HIM?
02:24:49>> I THINK HERE AT THE END OF THE DAY IT HELPED ABDUL.
02:24:52WE HEARD A LOT FROM DEMOCRATS IN THE HOURS FOLLOWING THAT THAT IT
02:24:54WAS GOING TO UNIFY THEIR PARTY
02:24:58AND CEMENT THEIR RESOLVE TO GET HIM ACROSS THE LINE AND I THINK
02:25:01THAT'S THE IMPACT IT HAD.
02:25:032 DIDN'T IT DIDN'T SEEM TO HE
02:25:07ROGERS AT ALL. VOTERS MIGHT HAVE BEEN FRUSTRATED WITH THE LAST MINUTE
02:25:10DRAMA OF THAT. IT WAS A SHOCKING WEEKEND. BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY,
02:25:14HELPED ABDUL.
02:25:16>> Aarti: LET'S FINALLY PUCK
02:25:18"ETALK" TALK
02:25:21ABOUT THE FUTURE FOR MICHIGAN.
02:25:23IT WAS A DEMOCRATIC SEAT BEFORE
02:25:25AND IT'S BEEN HELD ON TO. IS THERE A PATH FORWARD FOR
02:25:29REPUBLICANS IN THAT STATE NOW? >> I THINK THERE'S STILL A
02:25:33HEALTHY COALITION OF CONSERVATIVE VOTERS, OUR NUMBERS
02:25:36WEREN'T QUITE AS DRASTIC AS STRAIGHT BLUE STATES.
02:25:39I THINK MICHIGAN WILL STAY A PURPLE STATE. AT LEAST FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS,
02:25:43BUT I THINK THERE'S CERTAINLY A
02:25:44LOT OF MOMENTUM BEHIND WHERE THE
02:25:48DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS MOVING IN MICHIGAN. I THINK WE SAW THAT BERNIE
02:25:52SANDERS WON HERE 10 YEARS AGO
02:25:54BEATING HILLARY CLINTON.
02:25:56THERE'S AN APPETITE FOR
02:26:04PROGRESSIVISM. I THINK THAT'S WHAT REPUBLICANS Mr. STRUGGLED TO DO HERE IN
02:26:07THE PAST YEAR. >> KAITLYN, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
02:26:11KAITLYN BUS, THE DEPUTY
02:26:14EDITORIAL PAGE HE HAD ARE FOR .
02:26:27SUSAN COLLINS CONCEDED TO TROY JACKSON.
02:26:30>> THE NEXT TWO YEARS WILL BE ROUGH.
02:26:34THEY'RE GOING TO TRY TO IMPEACH TRUMP. I CAN'T BLAME THEM.
02:26:37I FEEL LIKE WE LOST TONIGHT BECAUSE OF HIM.
02:26:41>> I AM ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHED.
02:26:43THE 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
02:26:51THINK MAINORS REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GETTING.
02:26:54>> COLLINS SERVED AS THE SENATOR
02:26:56FOR MAINE SINCE 1997 AND WAS
02:26:58SEEKING HER 6th TERM IN THE ELECTION.
02:27:01SHE RAN UNOPPOSED ON THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY BALLOT AND
02:27:04MADE TARIFFS A MAJOR ISSUE IN HER CAMPAIGN. STAY WITH US.
02:27:07WE'LL HAVE MORE ON HOW THE MAINE
02:27:10RESULTS UNFOLDED AHEAD HERE ON
02:27:13CBC NEWS NETWORK.
02:29:53[ ♪♪ ]
02:29:55>> Aarti: WE CONTINUE OUR COVERAGE OF THE DEMOCRATS' SWEEP
02:29:59OF THE U.S. CONGRESS AND PERHAPS ONE OF THE BIGGEST UPSETS OF
02:30:03U.S. MID-TERMS WAS THE UNSEEDING
02:30:05OF SUSAN COLLINS IN MAINE, THE FAMOUSLY MODERATE REPUBLICAN
02:30:09SENATOR WAS ELECTED 30 YEARS AGO
02:30:11IN 1996.
02:30:17>> WE WENT ALL OVER THE STATE AND I'VE GOT TO TELL YOU, THE CROWDS WERE HUGE.
02:30:19THE RECEPTION WAS WARM. AND THE RESPONSE COULD NOT HAVE
02:30:23BEEN BETTER.
02:30:27>> Aarti: THAT SAID, THE
02:30:29RESPONSE AT THE BALLOT BOX WAS
02:30:31QUITE DIFFERENT. EVEN THOUGH THE FIVE TERM REPUBLICAN WORKED TO DISTANCE
02:30:35HERSELF FROM DONALD TRUMP THROUGHOUT HER CAMPAIGN, VOTING AGAINST HIS TARIFF POLICIES,
02:30:38MORE VOTERS IN MAINE RALLIED BEHIND DEMOCRAT TROY JACKSON.
02:30:41AND THE CBC'S MIKE CRAWLEY DIGS
02:30:43INTO WHAT CAUSED THIS STUNNING
02:30:47UPSET. >> IT'S INCREDIBLY RARE THAT A
02:30:50SENATOR WITH THE THE KIND OF TENURE THAT SUSAN COLLINS HAD IN
02:30:54WASHINGTON TO LOSE AN ELECTION.
02:30:57IN FACT IT'S ONLY HAPPENED THREE TIMES IN THE PAST 50 YEARS THAT
02:31:00A SENATOR WHO'S BEEN IN
02:31:03WASHINGTON FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS HAS LOST AN ELECTION.
02:31:06THE MAN WHO DEFEATED SUSAN
02:31:08COLLINS, THE DEMOCRAT,.
02:31:12>> Jacquie: DEMOCRATY
02:31:17JACKSON WAS A LONGER, A LO.
02:31:25HIS MESSAGE RESONATED WITH THE VOTERS OF MAINE.
02:31:27ONE THE KEY QUESTIONS CAME DOWN
02:31:30TO WERE VOTERS GOING TO REWARD SUSAN COLLINS FOR THE TIMES SHE
02:31:34STOOD UP TO DONALD TRUMP OR WERE
02:31:37THEY GOING TO PUNISH HER FOR THE
02:31:40TIMES SHE DIDN'T. IT SEEMS CLEAR THEY CHOSE THE LATTER.
02:31:44SUSAN COLLINS LOSING THIS SEAT
02:31:45IS JUST ONE OF WE'RE COUNTING AT
02:31:51THE MOMENT SEVEN REPUBLICAN HELD
02:31:53SENATE SEATS THAT SHIFTED TO THE DEMOCRATS.
02:31:55THE BULK OF THOSE WERE IN RED STATES.
02:31:58PLACES LIKE KANSAS, TEXAS, AND,
02:32:01YOU KNOW, THERE'S A MESSAGE HERE
02:32:04FOR BOTH DONALD TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICANS AS WELL AS FOR THE DEMOCRATS.
02:32:08THE DEMOCRATS, YOU KNOW, POLITICALLY SPEAKING, IT SEEMS
02:32:11THAT A MESSAGE OF MODERATION, OF
02:32:15DEMOCRATS WHO WERE CONCERNED BY AFFORDABILITY ISSUES, THOSE
02:32:18FOLKS WERE ABLE TO WIN IN THESE
02:32:21RED STATES AND THAT MIGHT HAVE
02:32:25IMPLICATIONS FOR THE 2028 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN WHEN THE DEMOCRATS TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHO
02:32:28THEY WANT TO HAVE AS THE NOMINEE.
02:32:31FOR TRUMP AROUND THE REPUBLICANS, THERE WAS A CLEAR
02:32:34MESSAGE THAT THE VOTERS ARE DISSATISFIED WITH DONALD TRUMP'S
02:32:38PERFORMANCE OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS, BUT IT'S FAR FROM CLEAR THAT DONALD TRUMP GIVEN
02:32:42HIS PAST HISTORY IS GOING TO DRAW ANY SORT OF CONCLUSIONS
02:32:44FROM THIS.
02:32:46HE'S NOT BEEN KNOWN TO BE ONE
02:32:49WHO ACCEPTS LESSONS OR ACCEPTS
02:32:52CRITICISM WITH HUMILITY AND
02:32:54ACCEPTS BLAME FOR WHEN THINGS GO WRONG. SO YOU CAN EXPECT THAT WHAT'S
02:32:58GOING TO HAPPEN IS DONALD TRUMP IS GOING TO CONTINUE ON WITH HIS
02:33:02AGENDA ON THINGS LIKE TARIFFS.
02:33:05THE DEMOCRATS HAVE SAID ONE OF
02:33:07THEIR TOP JOBS IN THE HOUSE IS
02:33:10GOING TO BE TO BRING IN SOME
02:33:12KIND OF LEGISLATION TO REPEAL
02:33:15THE TARIFFS ONCE THEY TAKE CONTROL IN JANUARY.
02:33:17HOW THAT IS GOING TO PLAY OUT
02:33:19REMAINS TO BE SEEN BECAUSE,
02:33:21REMEMBER, DONALD TRUMP HAS VETO
02:33:24POWER UNLESS THE DEMOCRATS CAN
02:33:27GET BILLS PASSED WITH A
02:33:30TWO-THIRDS SUPERMAJORITY. SO THE CANADIANS AND PEOPLE
02:33:34ELSEWHERE AROUND THE WORLD WHO ARE HOPING THAT TARIFFS MIGHT BE
02:33:38GONE THANKS TO A DEMOCRAT-HELD CONGRESS, THEY PROBABLY
02:33:41SHOULDN'T BE HOLDING THEIR BREATH ON THAT.
02:33:44MIKE CRAWLEY, CBC NEWS, BANGOR, MAINE.
02:33:47>> Aarti: MANY ATTRIBUTED THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S MID-TERMS SWEEP
02:33:51AS A REBUKE TO DONALD TRUMP'S POLICY.
02:33:55DID TRUMP'S WAR SWAY AMERICAN VOTERS AND DOES CANADA STAND A
02:33:59BETTER CHANCE AFTER THE RESULTS?
02:34:00FOR EARLY ANALYSIS, WE'VE JOINED
02:34:04INTERNATIONAL TRADE MINISTER AT
02:34:13REPORTING THAT IT WAS A HISTORIC DEMOCRAT SWEEP IN THE MID-TERMS
02:34:16LAST NIGHT. WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS MEANS FOR
02:34:19CANADA GOING FORWARD GIVEN THE
02:34:20CURRENT TRADE TENSIONS?
02:34:24TENSIONS. >> YEAH, THERE'S A LOT TO UNPACK.
02:34:28SOME IMMEDIATE POSITIVES AND QUESTIONS WE'LL BE ASKING
02:34:31OURSELVES OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. OBVIOUSLY IN THE SHORT-TERM,
02:34:34IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT THE NEW CONGRESS DOESN'T TAKE
02:34:38THEIR SEATS UNTIL JANUARY. SO IT'S THE PRESENT CONGRESS
02:34:42THAT IS STILL IN PLACE. OF COURSE NOTHING HAS CHANGED AT
02:34:46THE PRESIDENTIAL LEVEL. THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION IS NOT
02:34:50CHANGING. AND ALL OF THESE TARIFFS TO DATE
02:34:53HAVE BEEN IMPOSED BY EXECUTIVE POWERS BY THE TRUMP
02:34:55ADMINISTRATION.
02:34:57SO NOTHING'S GOING AWAY IMMEDIATELY.
02:35:01ON THE OTHER HAND, THERE'S
02:35:03ABSOLUTELY SOME NET POSITIVES
02:35:06HERE FOR CANADA.
02:35:09I THINK THE MID-TERMS SENT A VERY STRONG SIGNAL AROUND THINGS
02:35:12LIKE THE PRESIDENT'S TARIFF
02:35:16POLICY, ON AFFORDABILITY AND IN PARTICULAR WITH RESPECT TO
02:35:20CANADA IN SOME INSTANCES. SO I THINK WE'RE LIKELY TO SEE A
02:35:22LITTLE BIT OF A STEP BACK FROM THE UNITED STATES ADMINISTRATION
02:35:26AND HOPEFULLY THAT'S SOMETHING THAT ALLOWS CANADA AND THE
02:35:29UNITED STATES TO GET TO A GOOD DEAL IN THE COMING DAYS AND
02:35:33WEEKS. >> Aarti: WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE DISCUSSIONS THAT ARE
02:35:36CURRENTLY UNDERWAY, WE CERTAINLY HEARD FROM THE MINISTER
02:35:39RESPONSIBLE, DOMINIC LeBLANC, FOR CANADA U.S. TRADE AND HE
02:35:43SAYS THAT PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE, THAT TALKS HAVE BEEN
02:35:46PRODUCTIVE AS OF LATE.
02:35:48HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK THAT IS CONNECTED TO ANTICIPATING THIS
02:35:52SORT OF A RESULT IN THE U.S.?
02:35:55>> YEAH, I THINK QUITE A BIT.
02:35:56I THINK ULTIMATELY WE SAW A PUSH
02:36:01IN THE LAST WEEK OR TWO WEEKS
02:36:05BEFORE THE MID-TERM ELECTIONS BY THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION THAT ALL OF A SUDDEN, THERE WAS A LITTLE
02:36:08BIT MORE OPENNESS TO GET BACK TO
02:36:11THE TABLE AND THEY WERE MAKING STATEMENTS THAT THEY WERE
02:36:15LOOKING FOR A DEAL WITH CANADA.
02:36:19OBVIOUSLY JUST THOSE STATEMENTS
02:36:20ALONE WERE NOT ENOUGH TO MAKE
02:36:24AMERICANS CHANGE THEIR VIEWS AS
02:36:27WE SAW YESTERDAY, BUT HOPEFULLY
02:36:29KIND OF -- THOSE TALKS CONTINUE
02:36:32NOW THAT WE'VE SEEN KIND OF THIS
02:36:34BIG PUSHBACK BY THE U.S.
02:36:37ELECTORATE ON TARIFFS AND AFFORDABILITY WRIT LARGE.
02:36:40>> Aarti: IN TERMS OF BEYOND THE TARIFFS SO TO SPEAK, I'M
02:36:43WONDERING WHAT THIS MEANS FOR RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES
02:36:46ON A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT FRONTS,
02:36:48TOO, BECAUSE THERE HAS BEEN SOME FALL-OUT WITH THE TRUMP
02:36:52ADMINISTRATION IN SOME OTHER AREAS AND WE'VE SEEN, FOR
02:36:55EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, USING IT AS A JUSTIFICATION, THE FENTANYL
02:36:59CRISIS AND, YOU KNOW, HOW THOSE SORT OF SECURITY MEASURES ARE BEING VIEWED BY THE UNITED
02:37:08ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. THERE'S A KIND OF BROAD-BASED
02:37:11RE-CALLING BIRACIAL THAT'S
02:37:17RE-CALIBRATION THAT HAS TO HAPPEN. WE HAVE A LOT OF NEW DEMOCRATS
02:37:21THAT HAVE TAKEN OVER SEATS AS GOVERNORS IN DIFFERENT STATES
02:37:23THAT ARE NOT KNOWN ENTITIES TO
02:37:28CANADA.
02:37:28AND WILL NEED TO BE STUDIED BY
02:37:33OUR DIPLOMATS -- TO KIND OF
02:37:38REINFORCE THOSE TIES AT DIFFERENT LEVELS ACROSS THE BOARD.
02:37:41I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
02:37:43MAY BE HELPFUL TO THOSE BROADER
02:37:46CONVERSATIONS THAT YOU WERE
02:37:48DESCRIBING IS THE IDEA HERE THAT
02:37:52THERE'S GOING TO BE A RE-SET AS
02:37:55TO HOW MUCH REPUBLICANS ARE WILLING TO GO ALONG WITH THE
02:37:59U.S. ADMINISTRATION. I THINK THERE WAS A LOT OF FEAR
02:38:03BY U.S. REPUBLICANS, BY ELECTED
02:38:06MEMBERS, THAT THEY HAD TO DO
02:38:08WHAT THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION
02:38:12WANTED AND CLEARLY WE'VE SEEN NOW THAT THERE'S BEEN A KIND OF
02:38:15BROAD-BASED PUSHBACK AGAINST THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION'S POLICIES
02:38:18AND SO MAYBE THERE'S A BIT MORE
02:38:21WIGGLE ROOM EVEN WITHIN
02:38:24REPUBLICANS THAT DID KEEP THEIR
02:38:28SEATS OR OTHERS NOT UP FOR RE-ELECTION TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY.
02:38:32>> Aarti: THE MINISTER, DOMINIC LeBLANC DID NOT REALLY
02:38:35WANT TO ANSWER THE QUESTION, BUT
02:38:44THE DAY WE'VE SEEN EVEN THE NEW
02:38:47SPEAKER IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. JEFFERIES
02:38:50TALK ABOUT HOW IN THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS, HE WHAT HAPPENS TO
02:38:53PUT IN PLACE LEGISLATION
02:38:56LIMITING THE PRESIDENT'S POWERS
02:38:59ON TARIFFS. SO THOSE TYPES OF STATEMENTS, EVEN IF -- YOU KNOW, HE'S NOT
02:39:03SUCCESSFUL WITH THAT LEGISLATION, OR THE U.S.
02:39:07ADMINISTRATION VETOs THAT TYPE
02:39:09OF LEGISLATION, ULTIMATELY IT
02:39:11JUST MEANS THAT CANADA HAS
02:39:14ALLIES ON THE ISSUES THAT IT
02:39:18CARES ABOUT AND I THINK THAT'S HELPFUL AS WE GO FORWARD WITH NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE UNITED
02:39:22STATES. >> Aarti: FINALLY I WANTED TO
02:39:24ASK YOU, DOUG FORD, ONTARIO'S
02:39:27PREMIER, HE SAID ESSENTIALLY LISTEN, THIS TRADE WAR IS FAR
02:39:30FROM OVER. JUST BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN THIS
02:39:33RESULT IN THE U.S. MID-TERM ELECTIONS, SO WHAT DO YOU THINK
02:39:36WITH ARE THE NEXT STEPS.
02:39:41WHERE DOES CANADA GO? >> ULTIMATELY WE NEED A DEAL.
02:39:44NOT A DEAL AT ALL COSTS.
02:39:46NOT A BAD DEAL BUT THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY SECTORS OF THIS
02:39:49ECONOMY THAT HAVE BEEN KNOCKED
02:39:51DOWN AND BEEN DEVASTATED BY U.S.
02:39:55TARIFFS. THINKING PARTICULARLY OF STEEL. OBVIOUSLY WE'VE HEARD A LOT
02:39:59ABOUT WOOD PRODUCTS, HARDWOOD FLOORS TO KITCHEN CABINETS AND A
02:40:03LARGE NUMBER OF OTHER SECTORS, SOFTWOOD LUMBER, THAT HAVE
02:40:06REALLY SUFFERED AND ARE CONTINUING TO SEE WIDESPREAD
02:40:10LAYOFFS AND SO ULTIMATELY THERE
02:40:12IS A NEED TO GET BACK TO THE
02:40:15NEGOTIATING TABLE, THE AUTO INDUSTRY IN PARTICULAR ALSO
02:40:18NEEDS A DEAL FOR STABILITY AND
02:40:20FOR GROWTH AND SO WE NEED TO GET
02:40:22TO A SITUATION WHERE WE CAN HAVE A CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE WITH THE
02:40:26UNITED STATES AND DIAL THIS ALL BACK AND MOVE FORWARD FROM HERE.
02:40:35>> MY PLEASURE. >> Aarti: INTERNATIONAL TRADE PARTNER AT McMILLAN LLP
02:40:39WILLIAM PELLERIN.
02:40:41>>> WE HAVE BREAKING FLUS NE.
02:40:44ANOTHER PROJECTED WIN AND SEAT FLIP FOR THE DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE.
02:40:47THEY'RE NOW AT 229 SEATS, THE
02:40:50PICK-UP COMES IN MICHIGAN WITH
02:40:53CHRISTINA HINES DEFEATING MIKE BOUCHARD.
02:40:55THAT SEAT WAS UP FOR GRABS AFTER
02:40:58REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN JOHN
02:41:10TOGETHER TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AND INSTEAD OF DECIDING WHO'S GOING
02:41:13TO GET THE CREDIT.
02:41:14YOU HEARD THIS BEFORE.
02:41:17>> Aarti: WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HISTORY BEING MADE AND FOR
02:41:21THE FIRST TIME 94 KANSAS ELECTED
02:41:34A DEMOCRATIC SENATOR.
02:41:36THE RACE HAD INITIALLY BEEN
02:41:39EXPECTED TO BE SAFELY REPUBLICAN. IF.
02:41:42>>> SO WHILE DEMOCRATS WILL TAKE CONTROL OF BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS, VOTES ARE STILL BEING
02:41:46COUNTED AND TWO SENATE RACES
02:41:49REMAIN TOSS UPS, ALASKA AND MISSISSIPPI AND THOSE RESULTS
02:41:53MAY NOT BE FINALIZED FOR SOME
02:41:59TIME. WE BRING IN THE CBC'S DARREN McCAFFREY.
02:42:01TIGHTENING OF RACES IN MISSISSIPPI, QUITE A SHOCK. >> INDEED.
02:42:05ONE'S TOO EARLY TO CALL AND THE
02:42:09OTHER TOO CLOSE TO CALL. TOO CLOSE TO CALL IS MISSISSIPPI. INCREDIBLE.
02:42:13STEP BACK A SECOND HERE. MISSISSIPPI IS THE MOST RUBY RED
02:42:16OF RED STATES.
02:42:17DONALD TRUMP WON IT BY MORE THAN
02:42:2120 PERCENTAGE POINTS TWO YEARS
02:42:22AGO AND YET LOOK AT THAT: WITH
02:42:2696 VETS 96 VOTES COUNTED.
02:42:29SCOTT COLOM IS TIED WITH CINDY
02:42:33HYDE SMITH THE INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN IN MISSISSIPPI.
02:42:36THERE ARE AT THIS HOUR ONLY 43
02:42:39VOTES THAT SEPARATE THOSE TWO, REALLY QUITE INCREDIBLE.
02:42:43THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI HAS NOT
02:42:45ELECTED A DEMOCRAT TO THE U.S.
02:42:47SENATE SINCE 1982.
02:42:50NOW WE HEARD FROM SCOTT COLOM
02:42:53WITHIN THE LAST HOUR OR SO
02:42:56TALKING ABOUT HOW THIS RACE IS TIGHT, BUT ALSO TALKING ABOUT
02:42:59THE INTEGRITY OF THE ELECTION. HAVE A LISTEN IN.
02:43:03>> UNLIKE ALL THE PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY THAT MIGHT BE
02:43:06SURPRISED, OUR CAMPAIGN, OUR VOLUNTEERS, THE PEOPLE IN
02:43:09MISSISSIPPI ARE NOT SURPRISED.
02:43:15WE'RE PREPARED. WE HAD BEEN PLANNING FOR THIS SCENARIO FOR WEEKS. WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF VOLUNTEERS.
02:43:17[ Cheering ]
02:43:23WE HAVE LOCAL LAWYERS AND EACH
02:43:24COUNTY, WE WILL PROTECT THE PROCESS OF THIS ELECTION. WE WILL PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF
02:43:28THIS ELECTION.
02:43:31>> Reporter: WE HEARD FROM THE
02:43:34REPUBLICAN INCUMBENT CINDY HYDE
02:43:36SMITH OVERNIGHT SAYING THAT SHE
02:43:38WAS ASSURED THAT SHE WOULD
02:43:41CONTINUE AS THE U.S. SENATOR THOUGH ACKNOWLEDGING THE
02:43:44DEMOCRATS HAD GONE OUT AND WORKED. IT'S INTERESTING IN THIS RACE,
02:43:48THERE WAS AN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN THAT REALLY DOES SEEM
02:43:50TO HAVE SWITCHED LOTS OF VOTERS.
02:43:54THIS WILL BE WORRYING TO REPUBLICANS IF THEY CAN'T HOLD
02:43:57ON TO MISSISSIPPI. THOUGH IT'S VERY, VERY CLOSE AND
02:43:59IF IT'S THIS CLOSE, IF IT ENDS UP BEING THIS CLOSE WITH ONLY
02:44:03FOUR PERCENT OF VOTES LEFT TO GO, WE DON'T KNOW WHATEVER
02:44:06HAPPENS THAT THE RESULT MIGHT WELL BE CHALLENGED.
02:44:10THIS COULD DRAG ON FOR A LONG
02:44:11PERIOD OF TIME.
02:44:14EVERY 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.
02:44:24THERE WAS AN EXPECTING UNLIKE IN MISSISSIPPI THAT THE DEMOCRATS
02:44:26HAD A CHANCE OF WINNING IN ALASKA.
02:44:29AS WE STAND RIGHT NOW, IF WE
02:44:31LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE, MARCH
02:44:33RAILROAD PELTOLA AND DAN SULLIVAN PRETTY MUCH NECK AND
02:44:37NECK. THIS WAS TOO EARLY TO CALL AND THE REASON I SAID THAT, ALASKA'S
02:44:41BIG STATE, ISN'T IT? AND IT VOTES QUITE LATE COMPARED
02:44:45TO THE REST OF THE COUNTRY. ONLY 74% OF THE VOTES THERE
02:44:48COUNTED.
02:44:49AGAIN, THE ISSUES AROUND ISSUESG
02:44:53CAME UP.
02:44:54WE HEARD FROM DAN J SULLIVAN WHO
02:44:58IS STANDING IN THIS ELECTION
02:45:00MAKING CLEAR THAT HE THOUGHT HE FOUGHT A GOOD CAMPAIGN AND
02:45:04DESERVED TO WIN.
02:45:05>> MY OPPONENT HAS RUN HER
02:45:08CAMPAIGN ON LITERALLY FROM THE
02:45:11BEGINNING PURPOSELY MISLEADING
02:45:14ALASKANS, CHEATING AND THEN LYING FOR THE LAST YEAR AND A
02:45:16HALF: THE CONTRAST BETWEEN OUR
02:45:21CAMPAIGN AND HER CAMPAIGN COULDN'T BE MORE CLEAR.
02:45:25OF WE KNOW IT. AND THE ALASKA PEOPLE KNOW IT AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE GOING TO
02:45:29WIN THIS RACE. >> Reporter: AARTI, IT'S
02:45:32INTERESTING HERE BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH IT'S CAN CLOSE AND LOTS
02:45:35OF FOLKS, THE TREND SEEMS TO BE GOING TOWARDS PELTOLA.
02:45:39IT'S SO CLOSE. IT'S DIFFICULT TO TELL.
02:45:41IF SHE DOES WIN, SHE WILL BE THE
02:45:44FIRST FEMALE INDIGENOUS SENATOR
02:45:47JOINING PEGGY FLANAGAN IN MINNESOTA.
02:45:51AGAIN PART OF THAT HISTORIES THAT WE'VE SEEN MADE IN MANY
02:45:54STATES ACROSS THE U.S. WITHIN THE LAST 24 HOURS.
02:45:57>> Aarti: DARREN THANK YOU FOR.
02:45:59THIS THE CBC'S DARREN
02:46:03McCAFFREY. >>> ALSO DEMOCRAT DEB HOLLAND IS
02:46:05MAKING HISTORY IN NEW MEXICO AS THE FIRST INDIGENOUS WOMAN
02:46:09ELECTED GOVERNOR OF A U.S. STATE. THE VICTORY COMES LESS THAN 880
02:46:12YEARS 80
02:46:15YEARS AFTER NATIVE AMERICANS WON THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
02:46:19WE'LL HAVE MORE ON THE RESULTS
02:46:21HERE ON CBC NEWS NETWORK.
02:48:00>> Aarti: WE CONTINUE TO TRACK REACTION TO A HISTORIC U.S. MID-TERM ELECTION.
02:48:03YOU'RE LOOKING LIVE AT THE CAPITOL AND SOON IT WILL BE
02:48:05UNDER THE CONTROL OF DEMOCRATS WHO HAVE SWEPT CONGRESS.
02:48:09THE RESULTS SEEN AS A MAJOR REBUKE OF PRESIDENT DONALD
02:48:11TRUMP. AND A BIG PART OF THE DEMOCRATS'
02:48:15SUCCESS LAST NIGHT CAME FROM FLIPPING LONG HELD REPUBLICAN
02:48:19STRONGHOLDS. IN IOWA, ROB SAND WAS ELECTED GOVERNOR.
02:48:22HE'S THE FIRST DEMOCRAT TO HOLD THAT OFFICE IN TWO DECADES.
02:48:26THE CBC'S WILLY LOWRY IS IN DES MOINES WITH THE DETAILS.
02:48:30>> Reporter: DEMOCRATS HERE IN
02:48:32IOWA WON IN CONVINCING FASHION
02:48:35FINDING SUCCESS ALL DOWN THE BALLOT.
02:48:38HISTORICALLY, IOWA IS A PURPLE STATE. BUT UNDER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
02:48:41IT HAS BEEN COMFORTABLY REPUBLICAN.
02:48:44THAT ALL CHANGED LAST NIGHT.
02:48:46AT THE GUBERNATORIAL LEVEL, ROB SAND, THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE,
02:48:50WON BY OVER 10 POINTS DEFEATING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE ZACH LANE
02:48:54AND THEN AT THE SENATE LEVEL,
02:48:57JOSH TUREK, THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE WON BY ABOUT FIVE
02:49:01POINTS OVER REPUBLICAN ASHLEY HINTON. THIS DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE
02:49:04RACE WAS THOUGHT TO BE NECK AND
02:49:05NECK AND TOO CLOSE TO CALL JUST
02:49:09ON MONDAY EVENING AND BOTH SAND
02:49:11AND TUREK PITCHED THEMSELVES AS
02:49:15MODERATE DEMOCRATS WILLING AND ABLE TO WORK WITH THEIR
02:49:19REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES AND IN FACT SAND IN HIS VICTORY SPEECH
02:49:22LAST NIGHT ACTUALLY THANKED
02:49:25REPUBLICANS AND INDEPENDENTS FOR PLEDGING THEIR SUPPORT IN HIM.
02:49:28LET'S TAKE A BRIEF LISTEN TO
02:49:29SOME OF WHAT HE HAD TO SAY.
02:49:34>> THANK YOU TO REPUBLICAN
02:49:37INDEPENDENT ENDORSERS FOR YOUR COURAGE AND LEADERSHIP
02:49:41GENUINELY. WE DO LIVE IN A BROKEN TWO
02:49:45CHOICE POLITICAL SYSTEM WHERE IT REQUIRES REAL LISTENING TO LEARN
02:49:49THAT A CANDIDATE THAT IS IN THE OTHER PARTY DOESN'T SEEM YOU AS
02:49:53THE ENEMY, YOU LISTENED. YOU KNEW THAT YOU WOULD RECEIVE
02:49:56SOME NEGATIVE REACTION.
02:49:59FOR ENDORSING ACROSS PARTY LINES
02:50:01BUT YOU KNEW THAT THE ANGRIEST
02:50:03ONES ARE THE LOUDEST AND YOU KNEW THAT HE WERE WILLING TO
02:50:07STAND PUBLICLY ON PRINCIPLE TO SUPPORT RETURNING OUR STATE TO
02:50:11BALANCED GOVERNMENT. >> Reporter: REALLY THE
02:50:14RESULTS HERE IN IOWA ARE REFLECTIVE OF THE BROADER TRENDS
02:50:18THAT WE SEE PLAYING OUT ACROSS THIS COUNTRY.
02:50:22ESSENTIALLY A REPUDIATION OF
02:50:25PRESIDENT TRUMP AND MANY OF HIS
02:50:27POLICIES, PARTICULARLY HERE IN IOWA, THE WAR IN IRAN THAT
02:50:31CAUSED THE PRICE OF OIL, THE PRICE OF GAS AND MOST
02:50:34IMPORTANTLY FOR IOWANS, THE
02:50:36PRICE OF DIESEL TO SKYROCKET.
02:50:38WILLY 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.
02:50:45MID-TERM ELECTIONS WE'RE HEARING FROM DONALD TRUMP. HE'S SPEAKING FROM THE
02:50:49CONSTRUCTION SITES OF THE FUTURE BALLROOM.
02:50:52LET'S LISTEN IN TO HIS REMARKS.
02:50:54>> President Donald Trump:
02:50:56INTEREST RATES AND THEY TELL YOU WRONG UNFORTUNATELY.
02:51:00BUT I WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY. YOU'RE SPECIAL PEOPLE. I GREW UP WITH YOU.
02:51:03EVERY ONE OF YOU, I GREW UP WITH YOU MAYBE IN A DIFFERENT FORM,
02:51:07MAYBE GENETICALLY, MAYBE IT WAS
02:51:09YOUR FATHERS OR YOUR MOTHERS,
02:51:11BUT I GREW IN CONSTRUCTION SITES
02:51:14AND A LOT OF YOUR FAMILIES ARE DOING THIS FOR A LONG TIME AND
02:51:18YOU'RE THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS.
02:51:20I HEARD IN DOING THE BEAMS,
02:51:23THESE BEAMS ARE THE HEAVIEST EVER SOCIETY AND BO TOLD ME, WE
02:51:27WERE TALKING ABOUT IT, IF YOU
02:51:29LOOK AT THAT ROOF, THAT ROOF
02:51:31COULD HOLD HISTORIES.
02:51:35NORMALLY I SAY THIS FOR THE
02:51:38MEDIA, A HELICOPTER COULD TOUCH THAT ROOF WOULD COME THROUGH THE CEILING.
02:51:41YOU CAN PUT AS MANY HELICOPTERS AS YOU WANT ON THE ROOF T AS
02:51:45POWERFUL CEILING. IT'SES DRONE PROOF. IT'S MISSILE PROOF.
02:51:48IT BULLETPROOF. THE SIDES WALLS, THE GLASS IS
02:51:52BULLETPROOF. AND DRONE PROOF.
02:51:56NO DRONE CAN PIERCE IT.
02:52:00NO BULLET CAN PIERCE IT.
02:52:02YOU'LL SEE IT START TO COME NOW.
02:52:04IT'S THIS THICK AND YET IT'S PERFECT VISION. IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE YOU CAN DO THAT.
02:52:08MUCH SO IT'S HEAVY BULLETPROOF GLASS.
02:52:12IT'S ALSO DRONE PROOF AND SMALL MISSILE IF YOU CAN BELIEVE IT.
02:52:15SMALL MISSILE AND WHAT HAPPENS
02:52:17IS YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK AT T IT,
02:52:21YOU CAN SEE THROUGH IT LIKE I'M SEEING YOU RIGHT NOW.
02:52:23IT'S AMAZING.
02:52:26AMAZING STUFF THE TECHNOLOGY THEY HAVE TODAY.
02:52:28SO YOU HAVE A CEILING, DRONE
02:52:31PROOF, MISSILE PROOF,
02:52:33BULLETPROOF, THE FLOOR'S THICK
02:52:35AND ALL FROM UNDERNEATH IS
02:52:38TOTALLY DESIGNED IN SUCH A WAY -- IT'S THE -- THIS IS THE
02:52:41SAFEST PLACE IN WASHINGTON. WHEN WE'RE HAVING A DINNER, THIS
02:52:44WILL BE THE SAFEST PLACE.
02:52:46SO YOU CAN HAVE WORLD LEADERS, YOUR PRESIDENT SITTING HERE AND
02:52:50THEY'VE BEEN WANTING A MUCH
02:52:52BIGGER SPACE, A MUCH BETTER
02:52:54SPACE THAN THEY'VE HAD FOR 150 YEARS.
02:52:57PRESIDENTS, YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY, WHAT THEY NEVER INTENDED IS
02:53:01SOMETHING LIKE THIS. THIS IS GOING TO BE VERY SAFE. YOU CAN SIT HERE AND LET PEOPLE
02:53:05DO WHATEVER THEY WANT. NOTHING'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
02:53:07THIS IS THE MOST POWERFUL BUILDING, STRUCTURALLY, THE MOST
02:53:11POWERFUL BUILDING THEY SAY EVER BUILT. AND IT WAS DESIGNED THAT WAY.
02:53:15SO THE PRESIDENT CAN HAVE
02:53:19SAFETY. HAVING THE PRESIDENT OF CHINA, RUSSIA OR ANY PLACE ELSEWHERE
02:53:23THEY'RE HAVING DINNER, WHEN THEY
02:53:25HAVE 2,000 GUESTS, 2500 GUESTS,
02:53:29THEY'RE TOTALLY SAFE. IT'S IMPERVIOUS.
02:53:33I WANTED TO TELL YOU WHAT YOU'VE DONE IS AMAZING.
02:53:36WHAT YOU'RE BUILDING, WILL IT BE FINISHED PRETTY SOON, THE HARD
02:53:40PART IS DONE AND THE ONE THING
02:53:43THAT I'M MOST FASEVACUATED WITH
02:53:45IS WHAT THEY'VE DONE UNDERNEATH
02:53:48T .
02:53:51IT GOES DOWN FIVE STOREYS, THE
02:53:54MILITARY SAID SIR, WE'VE NEVER
02:53:55HAD HAD THIS OPPORTUNITY AT TE WHITE HOUSE.
02:53:59IT FRAGILE. GOING UNDERNEATH THE BUILDING WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE.
02:54:03WE DID EVERYTHING THEY WANTED AND IT'S SOMETHING -- THEY SAID
02:54:06THAT'S BEEN THEIR DREAM FOR 50 YEARS.
02:54:08IT'S BEEN THE DREAM OF
02:54:11PRESIDENTS FOR 150 YEARS. WE HAVE EVERYTHING AND ON TOP
02:54:15AND YOU'LL SEE IT, WE'RE BUILDING A -- IT'S A DRONE PORT.
02:54:18IT HOLDS AS MANY DRONES AS YOU WANT, CAN HOLD OVER A HUNDRED
02:54:22DRONES.
02:54:24AT THE MAXIMUM SIZE, WEIGHT IS NO PROBLEM.
02:54:27AND YOU SEE THAT WHEN YOU SEE THE POWER OF THE STRUCTURE.
02:54:29WHEN YOU LOOK AT STEEL. NORMALLY THAT WOULD BE LIGHT STEEL.
02:54:32YOU SEE IT A LOT WHEN THEY BUILD
02:54:35A PLANT, LIGHT STEEL, YOU CAN BARELY WALK ON IT.
02:54:39IT'S A RAIN ROOF. THIS IS A ROOF THAT'S A
02:54:42STRUCTURAL ROOF AND RARELY DONE
02:54:44BECAUSE THE SPAN IS SO LONG THAT
02:54:48IT'S VERY HARD TO DO STRUCTURALLY. WE ORDERED THE MARBLE FOR THE
02:54:51FLOOR. THE MARBLE IS REALLY MAGNIFICENT MARBLE.
02:54:55IT'S A CUT, IT'S A VEIN THAT
02:54:56PEOPLE HAVE BEEN AFTER FOR 50 YEARS.
02:55:00AND THE OWNER OF THE QUARRY
02:55:04DIDN'T WANT TO SELL IT.
02:55:06BUT HE LIKED ME AND HE ALSO WAS
02:55:09SO HONOURED TO BE DOING IT FOR THE COUNTRY.
02:55:12FOR THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE ME
02:55:15FLOOR YOU'LL SEE IT IS THE MOST
02:55:19BEAUTIFUL MARBLE YOU'LL EVER SEEN. THIS IS A VEIN THAT EVERYBODY
02:55:21WANTED TO ARREST LONG TIME AND I GOT IT AND I GOT IT FOR THE
02:55:25FLOOR OF THE BALLROOM AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
02:55:28AND IT'S GOING TO BE BEAUTIFUL. THE WALLS ARE GOING TO BE --
02:55:32YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF GLASS. A LOT OF YOU WILL BE LOOKING AT
02:55:35THE TREASURY BUILDING RIGHT THERE.
02:55:36YOU'LL BE LOOK AT THE FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND YOU'LL SEE
02:55:40IF YOU LOOK BACK THERE, YOU LOOK
02:55:42AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
02:55:45YOU HAVE NORTH AND SOUTH.
02:55:47AND THE KITSCH KITCHEN IS U.
02:55:53WE HAVE LARGE STAIRCASES FROM THE KITCHEN.
02:55:55IF I PUT THE KITCHEN ON TOP YOU
02:56:00WOULD LOSE THREE WALLS. THE KITCHEN TAKES ABOUT 30% OF THE FACE.
02:56:03IT'S ALL THE SPACE THAT YOU HAVE RIGHT UNDERNEATH.
02:56:07IT'S GOING TO BE TOP OF THE LINE.
02:56:09SO THERE'S NEVER BEEN ANYTHING
02:56:15LIKE. THIS IT'S FREE. FREE OF CHARGE.
02:56:18SOME GREAT PATRIOTS DEVOTED A LOT OF MONEY, GIVEN A LOT OF
02:56:21MONEY TO GET IT BUILT AND WE
02:56:24DIDN'T USE TAXPAYERS MONEY TO BUILD THE BALLROOM AND IT'S
02:56:27GOING TO BE -- WITH IT'S COMPLETED IT WILL BE THE BEST
02:56:30ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. YOU KNOW WHEN I WAS IN CHINA, WE
02:56:34WENT TO THE GREAT HALL, THAT'S
02:56:36CALLED THE GREAT HALL OF CHINA. AND IT'S -- IT'S INCREDIBLE.
02:56:39THIS IS ACTUALLY LARGER.
02:56:41THIS IS LARGER AND IT WILL BE
02:56:44THE MOST MAGNIFICENT. WHEN YOU SEE WHAT WE'RE DOING
02:56:47BETWEEN THE MARBLES AND THE BRONZES AND THE DIFFERENT THINGS, TOP OF THE LINE.
02:56:51GREAT ARCHITECTS.
02:56:53OUR TOP ARCHITECTS AND WE HAVE
02:56:55ANOTHER MAN THAT'S WORKED WITH
02:56:58ME FOR A LONG TIME TOGETHER AND
02:57:01WE -- WE NOT ONLY CLEANED UP WASHINGTON IN TERMS OF GRAFFITI
02:57:05AND OPENED UP THE STATUES AND
02:57:08THE FOUNTAINS AND FIXED EVERYTHING UP, MADE IT BEAUTIFUL
02:57:12AND EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT IT.
02:57:14BUT A MAN THAT HELPED US A LOT
02:57:17WITH CRIME BECAUSE CRIME IS ALMOST NON-EXISTENT NOW IN WASHINGTON.
02:57:21WE WENT FROM ONE OF THE MOST
02:57:25UNSAFE SUFFICE THE COUNTRY TO S
02:57:32UNSAFE CITIES IN THE COUNTRY. THANK YOU, SIR, THANK YOU.
02:57:35THANK YOU. SO WE HAVE A WHITE HOUSE WHERE
02:57:39PEOPLE CAN WALK TO WORK. WHEN I FIRST CAME IN TWO YEARS
02:57:42AGO, FIRST TERM WAS -- IT WAS DIFFERENT.
02:57:44IT WASN'T -- YOU DIN HAVE THE DE
02:57:48CRIME. IT DEVELOPED DURING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION. MAYBE COVID, NOBODY KNOWS.
02:57:51IT WAS A KILLING FIELD. WASHINGTON DC.
02:57:54AND WE WORKED TOGETHER WITH
02:57:56EXPERTS AND WE BROUGHT IN THE
02:57:59NATIONAL GUARD WHO ARE FANTASTIC AN WE WORKED WITH WASHINGTON
02:58:03POLICE AND WE HAVE NOW ONE OF THE SAFEST CITIES ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
02:58:06BUT ANYWHERE CERTAINLY IN THE
02:58:09COUNTRY AND, AGAIN, THIS WAS A
02:58:13PLACE WHERE WHERE YOUNG MEN E
02:58:23TO SEE THE WHITE HOUSE AND CALL UP THE PARENTS, I'M SORRY, YOUR
02:58:27SON HAS BEEN KILLED AND THEY
02:58:30SEND THE SON HOME IN A CASKET.
02:58:33OR THE DAUGHTER IN A CASKET. THREE A WEEK.
02:58:37WE WERE LOSING THREE PEOPLE A WEEK.
02:58:39THREE MURDERS A WEEK BY SAVAGES AND MOVED THEM OUT.
02:58:42WE MOVED OVER 5,000 PEOPLE OUT OF WASHINGTON DC.
02:58:45THEY CAME IN THROUGH THE OPEN BORDERS.
02:58:47AND THEY CAME IN VICIOUSLY AND
02:58:50VIOLENTLY AND WE HAD A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH DEMOCRATS BECAUSE
02:58:53THEY WANTED TO PROTECT KILLERS.
02:58:55I MEAN I -- I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. BUT WHO DOES?
02:58:59WHO DOES? MAKES NO SENSE. WE GOT 'EM OUT OF HERE.
02:59:02MOVED 'EM BACK. SOME WERE SO VIOLENT, SOME
02:59:05KILLED MANY PEOPLE THAT WE
02:59:07DIDN'T WANT TO SEND THEM BACK TO THEIR COUNTRIES.
02:59:11WE HATE THE COST OF HAVING THEM
02:59:16IN JAIL FOR 50 YEARS.
02:59:19SPEAKING OF ABLE TO COME BACK,
02:59:20FOR THE LAST 17 MONTHS, ZERO
02:59:24ILLEGAL MY GRABS HAVE MIO
02:59:29YOUR COUNTRY. SOMETHING NOBODY THOUGHT WAS POSSIBLE.
02:59:32WE'RE HAPPY ABOUT THAT. WE'RE HAPPY ABOUT WASHINGTON DC.
02:59:34PEOPLE ARE COMING TO WASHINGTON.
02:59:37ALL THE RESTAURANTS WERE CLOSING BECAUSE OF CRIME AND NOW ALL THE
02:59:40RESTAURANTS, IF YOU'RE A RESTAURATEUR YOU CAN'T GET A
02:59:44SPACE.
02:59:44YOU CAN'T GET
02:59:49>> President Donald Trump: PEOPLE AND DINING AND THEY'RE HAVING A GOOD TIME, AND IT'S A
02:59:52CAPITAL -- IT'S THE CAPITAL OF
02:59:56OUR COUNTRY. WE HAVE TO MAKE IT BEAUTIFUL AND WE HAVE TO MAKE IT SAFE,
02:59:59AND THIS BUILDING WILL BE DOWN, WHEN IT'S COMPLETED, WILL BE
03:00:02ONE OF THE GREAT BUILDINGS IN WASHINGTON, D.C., AND THEY'LL
03:00:05UNDERSTAND THAT. MOST PEOPLE UNDERSTAND.
03:00:08THIS WHOLE MAGNIFICENT SPACE WILL BE A VERY IMPORTANT SPACE
03:00:12IN THE FUTURE LIFE OF OUR COUNTRY.
03:00:13SO WIT THAT, I'D LIKE TO HAVE
03:00:22THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, A GREAT MAN, EIGHT YEARS IN
03:00:26NORTH DAKOTA, A VERY SUCCESSFUL
03:00:28BUSINESSMAN, AND HE'S DONE A
03:00:31REALLY GREAT JOB RUNNING THE
03:00:33INTERIOR AND HE'S DONE A GREAT
03:00:38JOB. DOUG BURGUM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
03:00:41[Applause] >> THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT.
03:00:43TODAY IS A DAY OF CELEBRATION -- >> Andrew: ALL RIGHT.
03:00:47YOU ARE LISTENING TO U.S.
03:00:48PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP MAKING
03:00:53MOST, ALMOST ENTIRE TEN
03:00:55MINUTES, ABOUT THE BALLROOM THAT'S UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
03:00:59SOME WOULD SAY