i'm andrea mitchell in new york. dr. craig spencer is on his way home, ebola-free today. >> my recovery from ebola speaks to the effectiveness of the protocols in place for health staff returning for west africa. i am a living example of how the protocols work and how early detection is critical for surviving ebola and ensuring it is not transmitted to others. >> after months of national anxiety, there is no one being treated for ebola in the united states. life is returning to normal for kaci hick ox having shown no symptoms of any virus. >> i remain really thankful for all of the support we received. and also a bit disappointed at some of the negative things i have heard. i hope that one day we as an american culture can learn to show compassion instead. >> ron is coordinating the federal government's response for the obama administration and joins me from the white house. thanks and great to see you. does this mean you are confident that there won't be more cases of ebola? >> today is a milestone, but as the period sa

. >> right now on "andrea mitchell reports." key races in a dead heat as the gop tries to take back the senate. >> i'm a marine who tries to take the hill. when we take the senate, we have to be bold. we have to be loud. >> if the gop does take control, an up and coming star said his party needs to take a long hard look in the mirror. >> i think you have to show up and you have to say something. there is a huge opportunity for us. >> it's the final push with the big names and the big money trying to get their vote to swing your way. >> we don't need to import a senator. >> we are surging. we have momentum. >> get to the polls. that's how we are going to win this race. >> raise all the money we can raise. >> we will be selecting with some kentucky bourbon indeed. >> good monday to you. i'm peter alexander for andrea mitchell. it is crunch time across the country. election day is tomorrow. both parties see a map to a senate majority, but our new poll shows republicans with the edge in kentucky. mitch mcconnell might be more confid

i'm andrea mitchell. president obama will address the nation on why he is going around congress to take action on immigration. valerie jarrett is senior adviser to president obama and joins me now from the white house. thank you very much for being with us. >> good afternoon. >> good to see you. tell us what the president is going to be out lolining tonigh. millions of people will be affected. what can be tell us about the actions? >> certainly, andrea. he is looking forward to having a chance to address the union and the american people tonight to talk about how he will improve security at the border and focus on prioritizing the deportation of felons and not breaking up families and figuring out ways of improving opportunities for entrepreneurs and innovators and high tech folks to stay in our country. he is looking at everything he can do within his authority and there limits to his authority to try to fix our broken immigration system. it has been two years now since he was in las vegas and began advo

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good day, everyone, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. just one of the cities along the east coast where travelers are already dealing with the elements in this big holiday storm. this is the reality for drivers along interstate 76 in philadelphia and at reagan national airport. just the first wave of weather that will impact millions of people over the next 12 hours. nbc meteorologist bill karens joins me now with more on the national forecast. bill, what are we expecting? >> well, andrea, we're getting to the heart of this storm. it's almost getting to the point where you need to tell people. i know you want to get to your loved ones, but is it worth it? going on the highways at the peak of the storm. is it worth the risk? that's a personal decision everyone has to make. i'll give you the information of how you can avoid some of those highways that are going to be the ones you want to be off of. right now, the storm has really intensified. it has a ton of moisture with it. this one had a connection all the way to the tropics. dumped 7 i

andrea mitchell said, because obama is not out there and they are? exactly. >> clinton makes choices about resources. hillary wasn't directing campaign in the gop funds or anything. >> christy made four trins in maryland. the obamas were in maryland continually and he got some help from clinton. there were cars going up and down my street with the bull horps on the top saying, make history again with michelle obama's voice. i thought -- it's what lyndon johnson did in the hill country in 1956 to get elected. these guys are serious. >> as a journalistic matter, you want to report on people who are big names that come to your state. anthony brown, he has no national attention, by the way, because of those polls. he got clobbered. >> he was a terrible candidate, number one. he ran a terrible campaign. he wouldn't come and do a debate in baltimore. he didn't. they had an empty chair in the democratic primary for him. terrible candidate. but larry hogan was not a politician. he was not very well known. and having christie there, i think because of his lac

our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell has more now on today's release and what was behind it. andrea, should we view this release in the context of a bigger picture? >> reporter: lester, good evening. officials say no. the top spy to america's mysterious armed missions the cia has not been able to penetrate does not signal a diplomatic opening. general james clapper, i'm told, did not meet with north korea's mercurial young leader kim jong- jong-un. but they tell me the u.s. spy chief was carrying a brief message from president obama to him. i'm told the message was short and to the point. the general was the president's personal envoy just to bring home the two americans. u.s. officials are saying this does not mean a warming of relations. they say that will not happen until north korea stops violating agreements to get rid of its nuclear weapons program and stops launching missile tests. in another big obstacle, by the way, to normalizing relations north korea has just been found guilty of horrendous human rights abuses at its notorious prison camps by the u.n. an

our report tonight from nbc's andrea mitchell. >> reporter: the nation's highest civilian honor awarded today to 18 great americans including the man who coined the phrase, the greatest generation, nbc's tom brokaw. >> on the night the berlin wall fell, only one american network anchor was there reporting live. he reported on watergate. snuck a camera in to tiananmen square. sat down for the first one-on-one with mikhail gorbachev by an american tv reporter. >> reporter: the greatest generation now part of a lexicon. >> i never thought i would coin a phrase that would have that kind of enduring appeal. >> reporter: others honored included three civil rights workers slain in 1964. record setting oscar nominee meryl streep. >> there's so many things you don't understand. >> wore a nun's habot. faced down a charging lion. mastered every accent under the sun. >> reporter: stevie wonder, his classic "talking book" was the first album a young barack obama ever bought. >> that thing got so worn out. had all scratches. >> reporter: and for her life's devotion to human rights, ethel kennedy. gra

andrea mitchell as chuck mentioned joins us tonight as she will tomorrow night. given how smoothly and efficiently our government runs now, what are we to expect if there's a shift in power and the republicans take over for at least the foreseeable next two years? >> well, the first big change would be john mccain. john mccain, the president's toughest critic on war policy, taking over the senate armed services committee, that's going to be a big change. then republican senators who've said, we're going to repeal obamacare. if they try, he will veto it. he's only vetoed twice -- used veto twice since he was first elected. that's going to be another cause of gridlock. and gridlock is what the voters tell us they don't like. there are other big changes to come. judges, supreme court justices, how does he get them confirmed? you can see also republican senators, we already know ted cruz, rand paul, others want to run for president. are they going to try to prove they're obstructionists, or are the republicans going to prove they are different from the democrats and

andrea mitchell sitting next to al sharpton. same thing with chuck todd. they make no distinction between an activist between al sharpton and journalist like chuck todd. you have al sharpton analyzing the race in pennsylvania saying how successful people were in getting people out to vote for the democratic cause and he is the activist getting them out to vote for the democratic part. no distinction, that's outra outrageo outrageous. >> all right, fox news, even beat the broadcast networks in ratings with 6.6 million viewers. >> really, we have not made enough of those numbers. you and i go -- well, i go back to late '70s when dan rather and cbs and nbc owned election night coverage. we partsed them like we were covering the kremlin. how come that person had to sit at the second furtherest desk. they owned it. to see fox dominate the networks is astonishing. and also, you know, what was it, only 8 years ago, 10, 12 years ago, cnn owned cable night election coverage. to see them swamped by fox was, i think, a seismic shift. >> come for the coverage, stay fo

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andrea mitchell here in the studio. your thoughts on what we have seen transpire tonight. >> what the voters are telling us, they don't like government. government is doing too much. they want the business community, private sector to do mo more. the job approval is very, very low. lower than when he was elected. and they're angry and upset about the economy. and i think that that has been so underplayed by the democrats, the democrats never found their voice on the economic issues that they should have been able to manage. income inequality and a lack of earning power that many americans, in the states, the rule of states that were in play, it's so important. and they never found a message that is a base economic message for democrats. >> the newly elected senator elect from the state of colorado gave what i think is going to be a very -- excuse me, well-reviewed speech. he said, washington is out of touch, out of step, and out of time. >> right. >> it's hard to make a case that he's wrong on any of those three looking

good day, everyone, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. just one of the cities along the east coast where travelers are already dealing with the elements in this big holiday storm. this is the reality for drivers along interstate 76 in philadelphia and at reagan national airport. just the first wave of weather that will impact millions of people over the next 12 hours. nbc meteorologist bill karens joins me now with more on the national forecast. bill, what are we expecting? >> well, andrea, we're getting to the heart of this storm. it's almost getting to the

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andrea mitchell, chuck todd. chuck, you get the first question. let's go back to the commonwealth of virginia. polls closed three hours ago. a lot of democrats worth their salt were telling you this is going to be wrapped up, it's done, we' back in. >> and republicans, they had a decision to make, national republicans at the end. they had a little extra money, were they going with scott brown in new hampshire or eddie gillespie against mark warner. they made the decision to go all in with scott brown. new hampshire a history in these political wave years, basically swinging back and forth wherever the nation goes. i think now they're probably looking at these numbers and going maybe we went the wrong way. the numbers, what is out, it still looks like mark warner probably survives, but the irony to him, he's a man that sort of came onto the stage by being a guy that wins in rural virginia. he's getting crushed in rural virginia, like a lot of democrats are in rural america in general. he's going to win on the power of northern virginia if he does e

i'm andrea mitchell in washington. president obama has landed in myanmar, also known as burma, for his second leg of his trip after landing an environment deal with china. wide ranging deal that china has ever agreed to cut greenhouse gases and transition to nonfossil fuels, result of secret negotiations that have been under way for nine months. anne thompson joins me now from new york. i know this is going to take place over a long time. there are a lot of obstacles ahead but this still marks a very big change from the stalemate between the u.s. and china when the president first went to copenhagen when he first took office blocking any -- >> huge transition into the low carbon economy, andrea. you consider that the u.s. and china are responsible for one-third of all the carbon emissions in the world, the fact that you have the two largest economies and the two largest emiters saying we're going to do something about this sends a powerful signal to the business world and the rest of the world. first of all, the united

joining us is andrea mitchell, host of "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. big question, big picture, how this speech lands, particularly how it lands at the other end of pennsylvania avenue in congress. >> well, in fact, that's the biggest challenge, because i think out in the country, you're going to find that there is more of a welcoming attitude towards this if people listen to what the president said. he redefined amnesty. he said amnesty is the current broken system. amnesty is not what the critics are saying it is but i talked to a leading democratic red state senator just tonight who had been briefed, the caucus was briefed by the white house chief of staff denis mcdonough and he said it was a tough go for mcdonough because some in the caucus believe the president has made it impossible by taking this step so shortly so soon after the midterm shellacking that he took which they blame him for, by the way. that he is then made it impossible for any of the republican moderates that they were working with very quietly to do anything that is constructive.

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. >> right now, on "andrea mitchell reports," the bourbon street summit. post mid-term thumping. the president and mid-term senate say they will work together. >> the relationship i have with the president has always been cordial. there is no personality problem here. i think my attitude is trust, trust, and verify. >> reality check, can the dueling parties find common ground on immigration, foreign pol circumstance the economy, health care. we'll ask white house chief of staff, dennis mcdonough. >>> the man about to take over the senate armed services committee, john mccain. >>> too close for comfort, inside the colorado election nail biter with john mick hickenlooper, who got in by the skin of his teeth. >> even when your side loses, you feel better when you vote and when your side wins, you feel even better. whoo! >>> good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington, where president obama was philosophical after being blamed for the democratic election night drubing. >> it doesn't make me mopey. it energizes me. because it means that this democracy is working. >> the president

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. >> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. a face-to-face meeting with president obama that could set the tone for his final two years in the oval office. the decisionas to whether republicans can show that they can govern, breaking the gridlock. capitol hill's kelly o'donnell and white house correspondent from the "huffington post," but live at the white house. first to you. what are you hearing in terms of the white house mood. the president did not seem chasened going into the meetings going into his first news conference, but the republicans on the hill seemed more combative than you might have expected after having talked about compromise on election night. >> they are feeling each other out and the lunch will give us the realm of the possible. what you are hearing is a non-sexy item with corporate tax reform and things like that. maybe criminal justice reform, but the big ticket item which is immigration continues to go down the tracks which is the president who said he is not going to back off his plans for executive ac

[laughter] andrea mitchell you won't know was a longtime correspondent. bashed you all know as a longtime correspondent. she covered the white house and has her own show now. and brook craft is a photographer who was on the beat for ten years for time magazine but has shot photographs for all of your favorite magazines. we are excited to have all four of these folks. i had the chance to talk to all of the panelist in advance and talk about their favorite stories and things that they wanted to discuss. everyone talked about covering the beat meaningfully and how to break out of the pack and not get boxed in by the day to day at the whitehouse. so i want to give them a chance talk about that. we will start with susan. we talked about what a challenge it was for you to do the story that not 50 others were doing but that was something you did on a regular bases. can you talk about that? >> thank you. i am honored to be here and i am not sure you how tell the panelist and audience because there are so many people in the audience with equal and better experienc

i'm andrea mitchell in washington, where president obama was philosophical after being blamed for the democratic election night drubing. >> it doesn't make me mopey. it energizes me. because it means that this democracy is working. >> the president says he twoonts work wi wants to work on the new republican senate and congress. he will still issue on congress. >> it is like waving a red flag in front of a bull if you guys don't do what i want, i'm going to do it on my own. >> will the president be waving that red flag. joining me, white house chief of staff, dennis mcdonough. what about the drubing that the president took and his intention to proceed on immigration? is he talking about taking it in small pieces that can be agreed to or is he talking about signing a sweeping executive order that would be that red flag? >> well, you know, i think the president answered this pretty well and pretty comprehensively yesterday. the way i see this, we, as countrymen are talking about how to fix the broken immigration system now for 15 years. the recipe to fix it has largely been the same over

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and good day, i'm andrea mitchell in new york. democrats are sifting through the political wreckage after republican midterm tidal wave washing over congress. it was a resounding victory for the new majority. republicans picking up at least seven senate seats tuesday night. and it's not over yet, the gop sees two more pick-up opportunities. first, in alaska where mark begich is behind and votes are still being counted. and in louisiana where the combined vote of bill cassidy and conservative rob manis looms over mary landrieu in a december runoff. as for the house, more gains for republicans. their largest majority in eight decades. and it may be a long time before we see that shift back to democrats. our team is in place to break down the key states. luke russert in iowa. perry bacon in kentucky. we start with msnbc in colorado where we've got another race to call and it is a big one. bengie. >> reporter: that's right. we can now project that governor hickenlooper, the democrat is the apparent winner in colorado. he has declared

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joining us now is andrea mitchell. it's great to see you. >> great to be here. nice digs, rachel. >> thank you. i don't think i get to keep them. we'll see. this election might go until january. >> exactly. >> it is a little bit, i feel there 24 intereare two interests i can't get my head through. you look at economic data, fundamentals, how many races are considered to be a tie or within the margin of error. history tells us it won't be close. it's going to be a blowout and republicans win. how do you approach something like this? >> very cautiously because it is close. polling can be wrong. but in every place we look, all the data show it's very close. we don't see signs of this republican wave especially in the nbc news/"wall street journal" poll which now shows it neck and neck in terms of people who want a democratic congress and people who say we want a republican congress. our best thinking in looking at this is that people are so upset. so turned off by the deadlock, gridlock, the argument, the commercials, the money that's been spent that they are angry

up next, "andrea mitchell reports." see you tomorrow. >> right now on andrea mitchell reports, piling on. gets socked with more than feet of lake effect snow and more is on the way. the danger is the sheer weight of it all. >> collapsing roofs under the weight of six feet of snow. you can imagine the stress it is putting on structures here. >> executive action. the president goes it alone on immigration reform, setting off a political war with republicans. >> part of staying competitive is making sure we have an immigration system that doesn't send away talent, but attracts it. that's what i will be talking about a little bit tonight. as far as keeping america prosperous and strong. >> coming up here, valerie jarrett, the senior adviser and luis gutierrez. campus shooting in florida. three university students are shot when a gunman

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