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Ark and there is a been providing support to the houthis to fight well e beyond whbeyond would have been able to do. and we are hoping this is going to resolve the civil war and resolve a massive human crisis in yemen today. >> you saw that heather nauert, his top aide, the undersecretary, the acting undersecretary was trying to cut off the questions, and he did answer another question that he wanted to answer about the iranian support for rebels in yem yemen, and phil rucker, he artfully dodged...

It has been ten days since the midterm elections and we have important updates for you. democrats continue to expand the majority in the house and flipping another republican seat bringing the pickup totalle to 35 seats and this is questions swirling about who is going to the lead the democrats in the house. msnbc learning in the last hour the current democratic house leader nancy pe llosi is meetin with the possible challenger for the seat which is marcia fudge. pelosi said that the two had a c...

Senate, and the lawyers for both sides are fighting it out in court, and the republicans in both races are trying to proceed as if they have won. there is one race which has been decided in arizona where republican martha mcsally conceded to krysten sinema make making her the first woman to be elected to the senate and the first democrat in 30 years. it is another blow to president trump whose persistent attacks on jeff flake push ed the republican to retirement and put the seat in play. and joi...

To make sense of the midterm, we have to look at texas. beto orourke could not top republican itd cruz in the senate race. the enthusiasm his campaign created may have been a game changer for democrats across the state, which is opportunitically red just not for him. i want to bring in garrett haake, who has been with beto orourke for the last couple weeks. walk me through what happened last night and what its going to be like for him going forward. ted cruz, even republicans dont like him. >>. ...

>> the health care system is still pretty big mess. and its obviously now going to have to be addressed on a bipartisan basis because the democrats took control of the house. i dont think anybody says that was the status quo. i think the american people gave. us divided government. they assume to like divided government. and i think the message is figure out what you can do together and do it. i think health care is still a crisis and needs to be fixed. >> you have been listening to mitch mcconn...

Senate, whos running against incumbent republican ted cruz. she was there when orourke cast his vote at 9:00 a.m. this morning. and with her voice full of emotion, she told our own garrett haake what that meant to her. >> i wasnt expecting it because we think hes pretty important, and were honored that he was here. >> reporter: why is he so important? >> because he represents that donald trump isnt. >> reporter: what will it feel like if you see him win this race tonight? >> everything. just eve...

Build a fire wall around some of the more conservative suburbs in houston to keep the margins down and keep republican voters engaged and coming out tomorrow. >> all right. garrett haake there. well talk about the polls in a moment in houston. garrett, thank you. kerry sanders standing by us in tallahassee. emergency voting happening there. what is it and why is it happening? >> reporter: well, emergency voting is if you discovered over the weekend that your doctor needs you to go in for surgery...

While, so trump had no, yeah, no weighing in on it. >> reporter: alex, we spent a lot of time following trump rallies across the country, florida, missouri, west virginia, in not races, people say trump is a really clear factor. when you get away from the rallies, voters just going in and out of a polling place for early voting, clearly the president is more in the backseat in terms of whats driving their vote. >> ali, thank you for the latest from there. lets go to the competitive senate race i...

One question will be whether beto orourke is the one to do that. theyre spending an unprecedented amount of resources. theres also no precedent for getting the turnout youd need to win at a statewide level. maybe orourke will pull it off but history is not on his side. >> garrett haake tweets about it. just spoke to my first abbott/orourke voter, an independent from richardson who thinks gop governor abbott is doing a good job running texas but that cruz is too much just for cruz and that there ...

Because it was meant for eric holder. >> her name was on multiple packages it appears. >> correct. >> and trying to entice somebody to open it up if you recognize a name. and her name was misspelled, so they will go back to look at threats made to her potentially, and threats to maxine waters and both of the former presidents. that the intelligence cheollectn is about trying to piece together a profile, and have we seen it before? it would not surprise me if there is some contact along the line ...