LET'S GET RIGHT INTO IT.
DID EVERYONE VOTE YESTERDAY?
WELL, I DIDN'T, I'M NOT AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, YOU CAN'T
BLAME ANY OF THIS ON ME.
BUT NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK OF THE FINAL RESULTS, IT WAS A
HISTORIC NIGHT.
IT REALLY WAS.
FOR EXAMPLE, YESTERDAY, MORE WOMEN WON THEIR ELECTIONS AND
HE ARE NOW GOING TO CONGRESS THAN
EVER BEFORE IN HISTORY.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) YOU
>> James: REALLY INCREDIBLE.
IN RESPONSE, REPUBLICANS WERE LIKE, "THIS
ISN'T WHAT WE MEANT WHEN WE SAID A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE
HOUSE."
HERE'S ANOTHER FIRST: DEMOCRAT JARED POLIS WON HIS ELECTION IN
COLORADO, MAKING HIM THE NATION'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO
SERVE AS GOVERNOR.
YES!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) >> James: THE FIRST GAY
GOVERNOR!
FINALLY, AN AMERICAN POLITICIAN WHO KNOWS ABOUT MY TONY AWARD.
THINK ABOUT THIS THOUGH!
COLORADO HAS LEGAL MARIJUANA, GREAT BEER,
AND NOW A PROGRESSIVE GAY GOVERNOR-- IS IT JUST ME, OR IS
COLORADO BECOMING THE COOLEST FLOOR IN AMERICA'S DORMITORY?
AND ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ WON HER ELECTION IN NEW YORK
YESTERDAY, MAKING HER THE YOUNGEST WOMAN EVER ELECTED TO
CONGRESS.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) >> James: YES, ASTONISHING.
OCASIO-CORTEZ IS JUST 29 YEARS OLD.
SHE HAS ALREADY DONE SO MUCH WITH HER LIFE, IT'S HARD TO
BELIEVE SHE AND I ARE THE EXACT SAME AGE.
(LAUGHTER) >> James: ALSO, IN A NIGHT OF
MANY FIRSTS, THE FIRST TWO NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN WERE
ELECTED TO CONGRESS: SHARICE DAVIDS FROM KANSAS AND DEB
HAALAND FROM NEW MEXICO.
SO LAST NIGHT'S WINNERS INCLUDED AN OPENLY GAY MAN, TWO NATIVE
AMERICAN WOMEN, AND A 29-YEAR-OLD LATINA.
ALTHOUGH WHEN STAFFERS TOLD TRUMP, HE WAS LIKE, "OH, I LOVE
THIS JOKE, KEEP GOING!" BUT THE BIGGEST NEWS OF THE
NIGHT, OF COURSE, WAS THAT THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FLIPPED, AND DEMOCRATS NOW CONTROL THE HOUSE.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) >> James: GRADE NEWS FOR
DEMOCRATS.
INCREDIBLE.
LIBERALS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WERE CELEBRATING LIKE ALMOND MILK WAS
50% OFF.
IT'S BEEN EIGHT YEARS SINCE DEMOCRATS LAST CONTROLLED THE
HOUSE.
TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF HOW LONG EIGHT YEARS IS, IN 2010, WE WERE
ONLY ON "IRON MAN 2."
THAT WAS THREE THORS AGO!
BUT TRULY IT WAS A HISTORIC NIGHT.
I WHERE SOME 114 MILLION BALLOTS
WERE CAST THIS YEAR.
IT WAS A RECORD FOR MIDTERM VOTER TURNOUT, AS WELL AS A
RECORD FOR THE NUMBER OF GROWN ADULTS EXCITED ABOUT GETTING
STICKERS.
(LAUGHTER) >> James: I GET IT, YOU
VOTED.
SO AMERICA HAD THEIR SAY LAST NIGHT.
AND PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD HIS SAY.
HE HAD A RAMBLING 90 MINUTE PRESS CONFERENCE.
ESPECIALLY THE REPUBLICANS WHO CAMPAIGNED AGAINST HIM.
HE SAID THIS.
>> MIKE KAUFMAN, TOO BAD KAUFMAN.
AND SHE LOST.
AND BARBARA COMSTOCK, SHE COULD HAVE RUN THAT RACE BUT SHE
DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE ANY EMBRACE.
PETER ROSCOM.
ERIC PAULSON WANT DIDN'T WANT THE EMBRACE.
I'M NOT SURE IF I SHOULD BE HAPPY OR SAD.
>> James: I THINK SOMEBODY HAS BEEN LISTENING TO THE NEW
SINGLE, SOMETHING NEXT.
"THANK YOU, NEXT!" BUT SERIOUSLY, THOSE WERE SOME
BRUTAL DISSES.
TRUMP IS LIKE THE PUSHA T OF POLITICS.
TRUMP'S GOING PERSON-BY-PERSON AND INSULTING EVERY ONE OF HIS
FORMER COLLEAGUES.
IS THIS A PRESS CONFERENCE OR HIS LAST DAY OF WORK AT RADIO
SHACK?
"JENENE, SCREW YOU.
MIKE, IT WAS ME WHO ATE YOUR LUNCH.
YOU KNOW WHY?
BECAUSE YOU'RE A WHINY LITTLE BITCH."
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) F
>> James: BUT AT ONE POINT, TRUMP CALLED FOR BIPARTISANSHIP,
PERHAPS USHERING IN A KINDER, GENTLER ATTITUDE FROM THE WHITE
HOUSE.
THEN REPORTERS STARTED ASKING QUESTIONS AND THIS HAPPENED.
>> I'M NOT A BIG FAN OF YOU PLEASE.
SIT DOWN PLEASE.
SIT DOWN.
I DIDN'T CALL YOU.
EXCUSE ME I'M NOT RESPONDING TO YOU.
I'M TALKING TO THIS GENTLEMAN.
WOULD YOU PLEASE SIT DOWN?
YOU RUDELY INTERRUPTED HIM.
THAT'S SUCH A RACIST QUESTION.
I THINK YOU SHOULD LET ME RUN THE COUNTRY.
WHERE ARE YOU FROM?
YAHOO, I HOPE THEY'RE DOING WELL, WHEN YOU REPORT FAKE NEWS
WHICH CNN DOES A LOT YOU ARE THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.
>> James: WHAT?
I THINK HE'S TAKING LOSING THE HOUSE VERY WELL.
YOU KNOW WHAT?
FOR A GUY WHO'S DODGED THE DRAFT FIVE TIMES, TRUMP SURE SEEMS TO
LOVE COMBAT.
THIS IS THE THING ABOUT TRUMP, SURE, HE'S INCREDIBLE ON
TWITTER, BUT THE MATERIAL REALLY COMES TO LIFE WHEN HE'S
PERFORMING LIVE.
THEN AT ONE POINT, A REPORTER TRIED TO LIGHTEN THE MOOD WITH A
LITTLE, WELL... OPEN MIC ROUTINE, AND IT DIDN'T END WELL.
TAKE A LOOK.
>> I WAS TEMPTED TO ASK YOU WHY YOU LIKE OPRAH SO MUCH.
>> WHY DO I ASK OPRAH, WHAT KIND OF A QUESTION IS THAT?
ACOMEDIAN HERE!
>> James: YOU GET A CRINGE!
AND YOU GET A CRINGE!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) >> James: AND THEN, NO LESS
THAN TWO HOURS AFTER HIS WILD PRESS CONFERENCE, PRESIDENT
TRUMP DID WHAT HE HAD BEEN THREATENING TO DO FOR MONTHS,
HE AND HE FIRED ATTORNEY GENERAL
JEFF SESSIONS.
SO IT LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER CONFEDERATE MONUMENT GOT TAKEN
DOWN TODAY.
WHAT?
I'LL TELL YOU ONE THING, JEFF SESSIONS IS LEAVING SOME
VERY, VERY TINY SHOES TO FILL.
AND FINALLY, IT TURNS OUT JEFF SESSIONS WASN'T THE ONLY ONE WHO
GOT BANNED FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY.
THIS JUST HAPPENED, CNN REPORTER JIM ACOSTA-- HERE HE IS AT THE
WHITE HOUSE PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY VERBALLY SPARRING WITH
TRUMP.
WELL, AS A RESULT OF THAT SPARRING, HE HAD HIS PRESS PASS
STRIPPED AWAY TONIGHT, SO HE WON'T BE ABLE TO ENTER THE WHITE
HOUSE ANYMORE.
OR AS MELANIA CALLED HIM, "LUCKY BASTARD."
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) >> James: NOW THAT'S A BUMMER
FOR JIM ACOSTA SEEN HERE BUT IT'S GOING TO OPEN UP A
GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR CNN'S NEWEST ANCHOR, CRIM BLACOSTA.