we have more on that kentucky race ahead including what the kentucky results tonight might mean for rand paul's presidential race and specifically for all the people in kentucky who have been telling hip to quit that presidential race and instead start focusing full time on trying to hold on to his u.s. senate seat next year. we've got that story ahead and also president obama tonight on the record about something that he previously had not been on the record about. just a fascinating answer from president obama tonight to a very, very pointed question.

we will seek the future together but we will do it as one kentucky. republican and democrat alike. >> maria: meanwhile history will be made in asia. president of china and leader of taiwan to meet for the first time since the communist revolution of 1949. the meeting will be hosted by singapur, developing relationships across the taiwan. market expected to open in 20 points. it is early and we are anticipating a jobs number at the end of the week that may very well drive action as well as earnings this morning. in europe early on

you try to run to be governor of kentucky and you want to do these kentucky things about kentucky. you say barack obama, barack obama, barack obama, and that works. >> or they say isis or sharia law. does the democratic party have anything out for the candidates and the would-be leaders for the party to say i know how to fix this. >> they can build capacity, 30% in a gubernatorial election in kentucky is not handed down by god as the ceiling for turnout. that number can be moved. and if anyone has shown that, the barack obama campaign 2008 and 2012. if you put in the money and the effort and the organizing and the will, you can get people out. >> and some next democratic genius to figure out how to do it in a year that's not divisible by four. chris hayes, the host of "all in." i hereby apologize to your family through you. we'll be right back. stay with us. beast. once he hits the hole and breaks through the secondary, oh he's gone. and our linebackers and dbs dish out punishment, and never quit. ♪ you didn't expect this did you? no i didn't. the nissan altima. there's a fun sid

we have more on that kentucky race ahead including what the kentucky results tonight might mean for rand paul's presidential race and specifically for all the people in kentucky who have been telling hip to quit that presidential race and instead start focusing full time on trying to hold on to his u.s. senate seat next year. we've got that story ahead and also president obama tonight on the record about something that he previously had not been on the record about. just a fascinating answer from president obama tonight to a very, very pointed question. we've also got tom brokaw here in studio tonight to talk about what is so strange about the presidential race this year. we are 90 days out from the iowa caucuses as of tonight. and it's of course, the first tuesday in november. it's election night 2015. mr. brokaw will be here live in studio to talk about what really is new unprecedented about our strange strange politics this year, particularly the presidential race. really looking forward to that conversation. >>> in terms of the latest headlines in that presidential race tonight, form

plus, kentucky looks to make failure out of success. and how heroin is the new ethanol of primary politics. first, the problem with the president's party is not the president. >>> good morning. we're awaiting a news conference from egyptian officials in cairo this morning. they're expected to provide an update on the russian plane crash one week ago in egypt ace sinai peninsula. all 224 people aboard were killed. more on that as we have it. but first, politics. the morning after tuesday's elections, the country woke up to see how its political boundaries shifted after the results rolled in from the night before. for democrats, what they saw wasn't pretty. in kentucky, tea party candidate matt bevin won the governor's seat. in a seat that's been held by democrats for most of the last seven decades. part of the sweep that left republicans holding all but two statewide offices in kentucky. it's given republicans near total dominance over statehouses in the south. in virginia, democrats failed to secure the single seat that would have helpe

i think it's important to note in kentucky, when tennessee had 10 care, a lot of kentucky resident come into the state to try to get health care and the kentucky co-ops did close and kentucky approval rating of the obamacare products that are in the marketplace is really quite low. as was evidenced in the state. dr. cohen, i want to come to you. i had commissioner mcpeak here. were you in the room for the first panel? okay. i'm really concerned about what has happened with taxpayers and the liability they are with, with what took place with the loans and then the solvency grants. and we all should be concerned with it. that is not your money to give away. it is taxpayers money. and this is just money down the hole. it appears. because this didn't work. and to going here and here from the co-ops that they now have the loan conversion options, startup loans, classified as assets rather than that, and i don't see how you get there. doesn't that type of loan conversion really give a false picture of what is going on in that co-op? is that not a falsehood? >> when talking about the conversio

bevin kentucky's donald trump. you wrote this, "the fact that -- and trump are wildly inconsistent does not seem to bother those whose -- as long as he is saying it in an aggressive colorful way." . you are conservative. do you really believe kentucky voters elected bevin on bluster? >> not just. he does have some good ideas but the fact remains he contradicted himself frequently on the a campaign trail. and he did resemble donald trump in a lot of byes during the campaign. >> how did he resemble donald trump. >> well he operated w ed withou establishment's endorsement or support. mcconnell did back him. but bevin never closely embraced the establishment. he didn't operate off the usual political script. he was saying things that would have been considered outrageous for more conventional candidates and he used a lot of his own money. >> okay. so he also talked a lot about against obamacare. did that also put him over the top in kentucky? >> well there is no doubt president obama has alienated kentuckiens of both p

now there are some -- there are two bright, shining moments in kentucky. you had two democrats win statewide. grimes and the governor's son actually won statewide. it wasn't a complete wipeout. look, conway should have won that race. looking at him an bevin, he was a flawed democrat and could motivate his base. >> i want to spend two minutes before the break. if rich he goes ahead with his promise to dismantle the affordable care act in kentucky is that in fact a risky strategy one that could back fire on republicans? >> that would back fire on kasich. he did the same thing, this is what i think about obamacare, it is there. i think what republicans have to do now is say okay, boik is with us -- obamacare is with us, we're not going to dismantle the entire system, and what the republicans need to do is find out how to make it more efficient so that more people want to sign up for it and the people who have other health insurance see it less of a threat. >> that's not what bevins wrap on. >> i think it's risky to say you're going to take away a owner issue

today's fo mar mar -- marquee race in kentucky, we take up all things politics. with chris steye steyer walt. and growing evidence that russian jet liner that crashed in the egyptian desert over the week, may have been brought down by a bomb. britain has suspended all commercial flight over the region for fear it was a terrorist bomb, for which the islamic state has taken responsibility. >>ur top story, donald trump back on top of the republican race for the white house, he is leading dr dr. carson, carl cameron with our report. >> reporter: donald trump arrived at new hampshire state house to file for first primary ballot in 14 weeks, he is first to pay $1,000 and secure his spot on the nation's primary ballot next year. >> make america great again. that is what we're going to do. >> reporter: after a few recent polls where she was behind, a new fox poll shows trump slightly ahead of carson, ted cruz and marco rubio were surging and tied for third, and. jeb bush and the west of the candidates are in single digits, after filing, trump met with the press core corp

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god bless you and may god bless the commonwealth of kentucky. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> here's the democrat jack conway's concession speech. and i love concession speeches. >> folks, tonight was not the result that we had hoped for. but it is a result that we respect. so while this is bitter tonight, i understand that life is very sweet, and i'm looking out at a crowd of a lot of great friends. my precious daughters, eva and alex. eva, alex, daddy's going to be home a lot. [ applause ] >> that was a nice line. daddy's going to be home a lot. that is a nice consolation price, being a human being. howard fineman's the global editorial director at the huffington post. andy bacon is senior political reporter. >> you've got an all kentucky contingent here. >> how national was this movement? it was trump mania. >> well, two people you did not see standing on the podium there were the two republican senators. senator mitch mcconnell, the republican leader in the united states senate -- >> they -- >> but it's important. and even rand paul wa

. >>> kentucky voters are deciding the next governor there. michael shure has more. >> reporter: voters in kentucky will elect a new governor to replace the outgoing governor steve bashir. they reelected mitch mcconnell by 15 points just last year, and barack obama lost kentucky twice and decisively. this time there's a tea party challenger and a democrat. it is a state that does not mirror national politics. they have had only two republican governors in kentucky since world war ii. and their democratic house makes it the last one in the entire south. bevin has been controversial, for his challenge to mitch mcconnell and for supporting ben carson. two of the issues on which the election hinges most are healthcare and gay marriage. kentuckyians are mostly pleased with their version of the affordable care act. and the governor has expanded medicare by 425,000 people. conway has embraced both programs and refused to take the side of kentucky's same-sex marriage ban as bevin visited kim davis, the county clerk who refused to issue marriage licens

it was a loss to lose kentucky. here is most telling if you look at the national picture and matt and the issues that he ran on and the support of kim davis and the claim to fame was not to follow the law of the land. >> are you about to bury one of your own? >> kim davis is not one of my own. >> i am talking conway and the one that lost to the governor. >> no, i am saying to you that it's no question. it's without question that a loss for my party, but it indicates why they're going to win the presidency. >> i want kacan't bait fowait f >> i just want to remind you if i can take 30 seconds. >> yeah i am looking forward to this. >> yeah, since the president came into office in 2009, they lost many seats. it's a day that's not good for the party. >> in fact we have won -- dem t kra i c cat i cans have won the vote in five of the six last elections and have held the senate more than not. >> you're not responding directly to mr. ronalds point and that's a devastating cycle here for democrats. >> i would argue that yes

a moulan rouge win for republicans in kentucky. millionaire matt bevin was elected governor, that's the second time in four decades that a republican has won the state house there. bevin drove through the state in his gold cadillac escalade andrew some comparisons to donald trump. >> this is a great night for the republican party in the state of kentucky. i'm also dpraftle for the fact that even more importantly, this is a great night for conservatives in the state of kentucky. >> and in mississippi, the incumbent governor easily won election. legalizing marijuana went down to defeat. voters soundly rejected the initiative to legalize recreational and medical use of marijuana and limited commercial growing rights, a former boy band. this is a strange measure because of the sort of monopoly, recreation sales are legal in four states, washington, d.c., ohio would be the first state to make it legal. >> some people tells me, they will try it again, we'll see about that. make overnight in houston, voters there, repealing an ordinance d

that was kentucky law. kentucky law banned emancipation of slaves. so you couldn't free your slaves if you wanted to. you'd be fined and possibly in prison. kentucky remained neutral. and tennessee -- [laughter] the jerks who ran tennessee decided to invade kentucky. that was a mistake. [laughter] kentucky was not going to have anybody invading their state, and they now joined the union and fought with the north in the civil war. if ohio had done it, they would have joined the south. but they were neutral and wanted to stay neutral. does that answer all your questions? i hope so. and thank you for your questions, by the way. yes, sir. >> has the house at any time considered electing a speaker from a non-member of the house? >> no. the rules don't permit that. he has to be elect of the elect. >> you say that the constitution doesn't forbid it, does it? >> sometimes the fight for the speakership goes on ballot after ballot after ballot to. but that's happened with the presidency also. the election of thomas jefferson went on for 33, 34, 35 ballots. >>

for kentucky, yes, it was like 183%. it was one of the few that was like that. >> and is it your understanding that a very high percentage of utilized much more care and therefore were more expensive to insure than the general population. >> i don't have that information. >> that is why we established that risk corridor thing. that is what happened to kentucky's coop. the t $50 million in first year. the first half of 2015 it had slowed down to $4 million. unfortunately when the risk corridor program was cut by that 87%, they were unable to continue. dr. cohen, is it your understanding that had congress not capped the payments that the kentucky corridor would still be open for business? >> no. that was one of the last and certainly -- we have heard was an important factor for them. but you have to know that there were many factors as we have been talking about a all along for the coop program. >> as i mentioned before, that having been said, is it your understanding that even without the coop, kentucky residents will sti

so, kim, let's talk about the kentucky race first. this was a race where the republican was trailing for almost all of the campaign until ara late advertising barrage aid at obamacare and president obama. so was that a decisive? >> yeah. you have to actually also look at ykentucky's history here. this was a state that with a democratic governor, democratic attorney general, embraced obamacare and bucked the trend of a lot of states. he set up his own state exchange there. hean went for the president's medicaid expansion. andn. they bragged they were he up as a model by the left across the country. >> it was presented as a showcase of the law. >> yes. and huge problems. one of the co-ops that exploded, exploded in kentucky leaving about 50,000 people without coverage. hospitals have beenve slammed wh new medicaid patients, which forced them to slash services. bevin ran on this and marked a remarkable victory and not only him but the republicans ended up winning four out of six statewide offices. >> let's talk about this issue of the co

but we will do it as one kentucky. republican and democrat alike. independent. those who did not even vote. to those of you who did vote, i personally thank you. >> bevin defeated attorney general jack conway by almost nine points, in what turned out to be a bad night for kentucky democrats. >> i told him that i remain positive about moving this state forward, if he ever needed any assistan assistance, that this democrat was at his disposal. >> in virginia, republicans retained a 21-19 lead in the senate, despite the fact that former new york city mayor michael bloomberg spent more than $2 million in favor of gun control in two races. it was a blow to democrat incumbent governor terry mcauliffe. who did 24 events over the past four days and sold the election as make or break for his progressive agenda. >> in virginia, you're a lame duck quickly. you can only serve for one, one term. so mcauliffe is in the back nine of his governorship now and in terms of getting big-picture items done, it will be difficult. >> in ohio, a marijuana legalization proposal was rejec

when kids in kentucky are hungry, we're going to feed them. the governor-elect wants to give up health care for 100,000 kids, with eoar not going to let that happen. that's not a family value. yet democrats aren't saying it and they wonder why they lose races. >> kay bailey hutchinson, you mention there's a frustration on both sides of the aisle of. if you look at the poll numbers on this, 69% of americans agree with the following statement, i feel angry because the political system seems to be only working for the insiders with money and power. there is bipartisan agreement. and anger seems to be an incredibly animating, motivating factor in this election. do you think democrats have harnessed that sense of frustration. >> i think the democrats have been losing not only in these off election years, but remember in 2014, republicans took over the senate. and so now they control congress, but they don't have the veto pen. the president certainly has done a lot with his power, of course. and i think the republicans are talking about why the econ

in kentucky, we have serious challenges. one of the things that impresses , is that while our co-op is going out of business, we have three new private insurers and now have seven insurers. they are not relying on risk corridors. disastrousot seen a situation. haveonsumers will competition in activities and we see enhanced capitation in the private market through our exchange. could have a benefit. would that not be true? >> that's very encouraging and i think the benefits of introducing a co-op into the dynamics of the marketplace can have a lot of ripple effects. i am glad to know about that. talked about the question of offering insurance policies 20% commercial insurance company can. there is no profit margin involved in ou can. can. you would that be correct? >> that is true. the co-ops generally were not outliers on the low end in price. mckenzie did a report in late 2013 about those initial prices and co-ops were toward the lowestwithin 10% of the 42% of the time but when these companies set their prices and filed the

this is kentucky. now, you're going back in time a little bit here, but the last time a clinton was running for president, twice in the 1990s, bill clinton carried the state of kentucky twice. he won it both times he ran for president and kentucky is a state where democrats still, if you look at the voters registration, they still outnumber republicans, there's an old long-standing democratic tradition in the state. it's a state that has swung dramatically in the last generation and particularly in the obama years, towards the republicans. how much is the antipathy toward barack obama in kentucky? take a look at this. this is the democratic presidential primary in 2012. you guys probably don't even remember a democratic primary in 2012 because barack obama was unopposed. but something called uncommitted was on the primary ballot. and look at this, running against the president of the united states in a democratic primary in kentucky, got 42% of the vote. all the yellow counties in kentucky, you're seei

i'm confident it is something we could do in kentucky as well. >> either way people in kentucky will have access. >> as a practical matter there is no reason that should have an impact on people's ability to get health insurance to the marketplace. they are run based upon the same standards. so again we would wait for a formal request from the gov.'sgovernor's office command he is not even in office yet. >> one more question. right now democrats have the fewest elected offices across the country since the 1920s. pres. obama has presided over the biggest drop in his own party's numbers of officeholders. does he feel responsible for that? >> i feel i went through with their lien the variety of theories that have been flip -- floated to try to explain this phenomenon. >> well, there is no doubt that we have had a rather vigorous debate in this country over the last six or seven or eight years about the direction of the country. and that debate has a lot -- allow the pres. to build on public support for an agenda that has showed support in terms of allowing our country to recover strongl

>> i'm from kentucky. >> jimmy: how do you wind up an actor when you're from kentucky? >> that's a good question. >> jimmy: thank you. >> i actually i had kind of always enjoyed entertaining people since i was young, like 3. >> jimmy: since you were really young. >> back in the day. >> jimmy: you were very cute. >> that was crazy. that's crazy. >> jimmy: funny -- >> i'm from kentucky. >> jimmy: i never realized how fat i was until now. we were talking last night, your -- liam hemsworth, buddy and costar in the movie, we were talking about woody harrelson and how they shot the whole first movie and he did not know -- woody did not know that liam and chris hemsworth were brothers. >> you know, woody has a special quality about him. i don't know why. but he has this ability to kind of just be in his own -- like he's making eye contact. hello. hello. like, earth to woody. all of a sudden he says a genius, eloquent thing. oh, you are there, okay. scare med. i thought i was talking to a ghost. >> jimmy: i was actually talking to you once and and he is very, very fond of you.

i think it's important to note in kentucky, when tennessee had ten care a lot of kentucky residents were trying to get health care and the kentucky co-op did close and the kentucky approval rating of the obamacare products that are in the marketplace is really quite low. it was evidenced in that state this week ms. cohen, i want to come to you. i had commissioner mcpeak here, were you in the room for the first panel? >> i was. >> i'm really concerned about what has happened with taxpayer and the liability there with what took place with the loans and then the solvency grants. and we all should be concerned with that. that is not your money to give away. it is taxpayer money and this is just money down the hole, it appears, because this didn't work and to go in here and hear from the co-ops that they now have these loan conversion options and that the start up loans classified as asset rather than debt and i don't see how you get there. i mean, doesn't that type loan conversion really give a false picture of what is going on in that co-op. is that not a falsehood? >> when talking about th

huge win for republicans in kentucky. millionaire businessman matt bevin was elected governor the second time in four decades that a republican has won the state house there bevin is a tea party favorite and outsider. -has drawn comparisons to donald trump. in mississippi, the republican easily winning re-election. breaking overnight, a ballot proposal to legal otherwise the initiative to legalize recreational and medical use of marijuana and would have limited commercial growing rights. this was a weird proposal in some ways. >> that group included boy band star nick leshea. he will always be a boy band star. breaking overnight in houston, voters there repealing an ordinance designed to protect lesbian, gay and transgender people from discrimination. the equal rights ordinance offers housing, employment and other areas, opponents say it would allow men claiming to be women to use women's bathrooms and pose some kind of rick. >> in kentucky, really big news. got big news in college football. the current playoff rankings a

but we will do it as one kentucky. republican and democrat alike. independent. those who did not even vote. to those of you who did vote, i personally thank you. >> bevin defeated attorney general jack conway by almost nine points, in what turned out to be a bad night for kentucky democrats. >> i told him that i remain positive about moving this state forward, if he ever needed any assistan assistance, that this democrat was at his disposal. >> in virginia, republicans retained a 21-19 lead in the senate, despite the fact that former new york city mayor michael bloomberg spent more than $2 million in favor of gun control in two races. it was a blow to democrat incumbent governor terry mcauliffe. who did 24 events over the past four days and sold the election as make or break for his progressive agenda. >> in virginia, you're a lame duck quickly. you can only serve for one, one term. so mcauliffe is in the back nine of his governorship now and in terms of getting big-picture items done, it will be difficult. >> in ohio, a marijuana legalization proposal was rejec

they were in ohio, kentucky, and texas. let's start in kentucky. picture you're seeing here, the man in the middle is matt bevin. he was the republican candidate for governor in kentucky yesterday. he comes from the tea party wing of the party. he was actually trailing in the polls heading into that election yesterday. the woman you see he has his arm around you probably recognize her. that is kim davis. and kim davis is from kentucky. she was the county clerk in rural kentucky who refused to grant same-sex marriage licenses this year, causing a major uproar. well, matt bevin in his effort to turn around that gap in the polls, he tried to motivate evangelical christians, gay marriage opponents, and so he went and he visited her in prison. he made her cause, he made the kim davis cause central to his campaign. and what happened yesterday in kentucky was a surprise. after trailing in the polls, matt bevin, who really rallied the evangelical vote really rallied the people who thought kim davis was being persecuted. he won by almost ten points. this wa

in kentucky, we have serious challenges. one of the things that impresses , is that while our co-op is going out of business, we have three new private insurers and now have seven insurers. they are not relying on risk corridors. disastrousot seen a situation. haveonsumers will competition in activities and we see enhanced capitation in the private market through our exchange. could have a benefit. would that not be true? >> that's very encouraging and i think the benefits of introducing a co-op into the dynamics of the marketplace can have a lot of ripple effects. i am glad to know about that. talked about the question of offering insurance policies 20% commercial insurance company can. there is no profit margin involved in ou can. can. you would that be correct? >> that is true. the co-ops generally were not outliers on the low end in price. mckenzie did a report in late 2013 about those initial prices and co-ops were toward the lowestwithin 10% of the 42% of the time but when these companies set their prices and filed the

why would you want to put people in kentucky in a federal program when we have a customized kentucky program which is proven to be incredibly successful. we now have seven different insurance companies offering coverage to our consumers and if you abolish connect and go in the federal exchange not only would the choices be reduced but also more expensive for them. >> that's what's confusing to me, because if he dismantles connect, people can then go over any way into the federal program, so it's not like he's really doing much, but is going to cost $23 million to the taxpayers in kentucky. >> exactly right. it's incumbent on those who understand the plan make sure he does. it's easy to say you'll dismantle obamacare but when you're putting people into the federal system rather than let them participate in a kentucky bred and specialized program, it just makes no logical sense. >> also when i look at the data in kentucky, before obamacare i think you had like 20% of the people uninsured and obamacare brought it down to 9%, so i mean, are you risking, are you willing to risk, and of co