MARKED BY ALL-NIGHT FLOOR SESSIONS AND FAST-PACED BILLS.

>> MARY: IT HAS BEEN AN UNPRECEDENTED SESSION NO MATTER HOW YOU SLICE IT.

JOINING ME NOW, BLOIS OLSON, CEO OF FLUENCE MEDIA.

YOU CAN ALSO HEAR HIM ON THE "MORNING TAKE" ON WCCO.

WHERE WE BOTH VENTURE FROM TIME TO TIME.

BOBLOIS, BECAUSE YOU -- I SAID EARLIER IT HAD BEEN A DECADE SINCE WE'D SEEN SOMETHING LIKE THAT BILL SIGNING.

WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THAT?

>> I HEARD LAST WEEK THAT'S HOW THEY WERE GOING TO DO IT SO I KIND OF WAITED TO SEE HOW THEY WERE GOING TO SET IT UP, HOW SESSION ENDED AND I THOUGHT IT WAS WHAT THEY WANTED IT TO BE.

IT WAS A PRODUCTION.

AND THIS GOVERNOR AND THIS PARTY, THE DFL CURRENTLY IS REALLY BIG INTO CELEBRATIONS FOR VICTORY.

WHICH IS A DIFFERENT THING, YOU JUST TALKED ABOUT DECORUM AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

BUT THE OTHER THING WAS, WAS IT WASN'T ONE MINNESOTA AND THAT'S HAT THEY BRANDED IT BECAUSE I THINK THAT -- >> Mary: THEY WERE ALL THE UNION BUSES AND -- >> THERE WAS.

>> Mary: PEOPLE WERE THERE.

>> BUT LET'S BE CLEAR.

THE DFL PARTY SENT OUT A CALL FOR ACTIVISTS AND INSIDERS TO COME TO THE BILL SIGNING.

SO THIS WASN'T A GUBERNATORIAL EVENT, IT WAS A POLITICAL EVENT, WHICH IS FAIR, THEY HAVE POWER.

BUT WHEN THE PARTY SENDS OUT AN ALERT AND SAYS PLEASE COME SUPPORT THIS GREAT THING, IT'S AND THAT'S NOT AS KIND OF THAT- NATURAL AS I THINK THE MARRIAGE EQUALITY SIGNING WAS.

THAT WAS A NATURAL MOMENT OF BREAK-THROUGH.

THIS WAS KIND OF A FABRICATED MOMENT.

>> Mary: INTERESTING COMPARISON.

THE OTHER THING WE'VE BECAUSE OF, ESPECIALLY IN THE SENATE, THE LACK OF REPUBLICANS VOTING FOR BILLS, GETTING ON CONFERENCE COMMITTEES, REPUBLICANS DIDN'T GETS TO GO TO MANY BILL SIGNINGS, THEY DIDN'T GETS TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT SPECTACLE MUCH THIS YEAR.

IS IT WORTH PEOPLE VOTING FOR STUFF, DO YOU THINK THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR MARIJUANA WILL GET INVITED?

>> I THINK THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS HAD A TOUGH TIME WITH LEGISLATIVE BRIDGES.

THEY'VE GOTTEN BETTER BUT I THINK THEY ALSO ARE TRYING TO FIGURE THAT OUT, AND, LOOK, POLITICAL CULTURE RIGHT KNOW MAKES IT HARD FOR BOTH SIDES TO DO THAT.

>> Mary: WHO WANTS TO EVEN SHOW UP AND BE THERE?

RIGHT.

>> WE TALKED ABOUT THE GOVERNOR BEFORE.

HE'S GOOD ONE ON ONE, HE WOULD BE GOOD AT THAT BRINGING PEOPLE IN AND I DID NOTICE A COUPLE OF THE BIPARTISAN BILLS EARLY IN THE SESSION THAT REPUBLICANS WERE THERE.

>> Mary: YES, YES, DEFINITELY.

>> I THINK IT'S JUST THE WAY IT ENDED.

I THINK THERE WAS A DIFFERENT SENSIBILITY IN THIS CAPITOL, IN THE PARTIES, THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY REFLECT OUT DURING A LEGISLATIVE SESSION.

>> Mary: THE OTHER THING, OF COURSE, WE'VE BEEN NOTICING AND THE HUGE CHANGE UP HERE IS REALLY HAVING A LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR WITH A HIGHLY ELEVATED ROLE, WHO SPEAKS AT EVERY BILL SIGNING, WHO REALLY HAD THE CROWD WITH HER TODAY, AND IT HAS STARTED THIS BUZZ OF IT'S NOT WRITTEN IN LAW HERE BUT GOVERNORS TYPICALLY DON'T RUN FOR A THIRD TERM.

IS PEGGY FLANAGAN THE HEIR APERSONALITY?

>> THIRD TERMS ARE REALLY ARD FOR GOVERNORS NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE.

I THINK THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WE LEGISLATIVE ROLES THIS YEAR THAT WILL CHALLENGE WHETHER OR NOT PEGGY FLANAGAN -- >> Mary: OKAY, NAMES, NAMES.

>> I'LL JUST SAY TWO, NICK FRENTZ AND ZACK STEPHENSON.

I THINK BOTH OF THEM WERE HIGH-PROFILE ROLLS.

WHY WOULDN'T YOU THROW IN A MELISSA HORTMAN OR CAR RE DZIEDZIC.

I THINK THROWS TWO ARE THE STORY.

WE ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT GOVERNOR'S GET WHAT GOVERNORS WANT, THAT FLIPPED IN TIME.

THOSE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS GOT WHAT THEY WANTED.

I THINK IT'S A COMBINATION OF GOVERNOR WALZ BEING A FORMER LEGISLATOR, HE'S GOT A TOTALLY DIFFERENT STYLE IN DEALING WITH LEGISLATIVE ISSUES BUT I THINK SPECIFICALLY THOSE TWO DESERVE A LOT OF CREDIT.

WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH WHAT HAPPENED OR NOT, THEY LED VERY CHALLENGING CAUCUSES THROUGH VERY TOUGH ISSUES.

>> Mary: ESPECIALLY THE SENATE.

ONE VOTE MARGIN, DZIEDZIC KIND OF AN UNKNOWN, DEFINITELY AS A LEADER AND THEN GETS A DEVASTATING CANCER DIAGNOSIS AND SURGERY IN THE MIDDLE OF SESSION.

IS IT JUST MIRACULOUS SHE PULLED OFF THE SESSION SHE DID?

>> ANYBODY WHO'S KNOWN KARI DZIEDZIC FOR 25 OR 30 YEARS KNOWS THAT SHE'S ALL GRIT AND I'M NOT SURPRISED AT ALL.

>> Mary: IS HAT IN THE HOCKEY WORLD YOU SPEAK?

>> I THINK IT'S HOCKEY, NORTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS.

I MEAN, SHE'S GOT A GREAT PEDIGREE SO, YEAH, TOUGH AND FORTITUDE.

LIKE, JUST PLAIN OLD FORTITUDE.

>> Mary: WHAT ABOUT REPUBLICAN LEADERS.

ARE THE REPUBLICAN LEADERS THE NEW BENCH AND THE NEW FUTURE OF THE PARTIES HERE?

>> I THINK THEY ARE BUT I FOUND IT INTERESTING LATE LAST NIGHT I GOT A NOTES THAT THE REPUBLICANS AND THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION WERE GOING TO COMMENT ON THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION.

>> Mary: I SAW THAT.

>> SO ALL FOUR SENT OUT A UNIFIED STATEMENT.

I THINK REPUBLICANS KNOW THAT THEY'VE GOT TO FIND A NEW TUNE.

>> Mary: AND A NEW SPOKESPERSON, NEW FACE.

LEADER DEMUTH HAS GOTTEN GOOD REVIEWS FOR BEING A LIKEABLE, POSITIVE, NEW FACE.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF HER POSSIBILITIES?

>> HER PERSONALITIES, I THINK SHE DID WELL, I THINK SHE TOO KEPT A CAUCUS TOGETHER THAT HAD SOME WILD CARDS.

I THINK MINORITY LEADER JOHNSON IN THE SENATE FIT THE PERSONALITY.

HE PUSHED WHEN HE HAD TO.

I THINK THAT LAST DEAL ON BONDING AND -- >> Mary: THAT WAS A BIG DEAL THEY GOT.

>> IT WAS A BIG DEAL THAT REPUBLICANS GOT, THEY HELD VERY FIRM AND, YOU KNOW, ALL THE PLAYERS BEHIND THE SCENES, WHEN I ASKED, SAID, THEY NEVER STOPPED TALKING AND THAT SAYS THAT THERE IS TRUST AND THEY DO WANT TO WORK TOGETHER AT THE LEADERSHIP LEVEL.

>> Mary: IT SEEMED LIKE PEOPLE LIKED THE LEADERS IN THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE.

>> THEY LIKED EACH OTHER.

THESE ARE ALL LIKEABLE PEOPLE.

>> Mary: WHICH MATTERS IN THE EN, WITH WE DON'T WANT