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The democrats tripp 0 house seats. >> does that technically make it a blue wave? >> yesterday republican congressman david valadao conceded to democratic challenger tj cox who has been declared the apparent winner. adding to the large st wave for democrats since watergate. democrats have won 41 house seats in the trump era. the latest numbers show democrats won the national popular vote in house races by 9.7 million votes, which is the largest midterm vote margin ever. the democrats 8.6 percenta...

Not come a halt, i expected today tb a sl-- expected today,a slow day, but it was not so. in wisconsin and in north carolina, where theres two big stories that continue to unfold that sort of put shivers down the spine of small "d" democracy. we will have more ahead on efforts of the states to cut the authorities of the powers of the governor and other statewide elected officials specifically because they were just won by democrats in the mid term elections. it was seen as an act of unprecedente...

But as "the new york times" jonathan martin notes, trumps take over of the republican party and wins in the senate has allowed for, well, little self-examination by republicans about a midterm that seemed at least competitive turned into the loss of almost 40 republican house seats. lets bring in tonights "hardball" round table. kimberly atkins is the washington bureau chief for the boss tin herald. republican congressman from pennsylvania who is retiring at the end of this year, and howard fi...

Concession. well see what happens. reaching across the aisle, not just symbolic. it is necessary for the former president hw bush. he didnt have years leading up to that first midterm, a year and a half or whatever its been. where he had bicameral leadership of the same party. you would say that his efforts to prevent a recession didnt work. there was a recession during that time. it cleared up before the election, but really the beneficiary of all of that was bill clinton. he went on to preside...

You have been talking with the democratic incumbent majority leader is theyre focussed on the shutdown and tradeworks. they know whenever they call up the white house, theres so much talk and anxiety about the special counsel investigation, and republicans on capitol hill, theyre somewhat uncomfortable with the political warfare that president trump is already launching against mueller on twitter day in, day out. they want to be focussed on other issues already on edge about what happened in the...

Proper sitdown meeting in the not too distant future. basically saying, look. there were so many important issues that russia and the united states have to talk about. we have to sit down and arrange a talk. if we do dont, there will be tensions, more in the world. back to you. >> matthew chance, appreciate the heads up so much. >> staying on the u.s. and russia. james mattis said russia tried to medal in the u.s. mid term elections. >> he tried again to muck around in our elections this last mo...

Steven kn steve mnuchin and the other corner though you have his trade advisor, peter navorro, whos an absolute hawk on this issue. he wants the president to take a tougher stance against china. it could be the battle of which side of this comes through with the president. well just have to wait and see. but in the meantime, united states has agreed to not automatically impose these tariffs that are set to take place in january. >> shawn, why is this trade truce happening now? are his moderate e...

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Trump agenda from this point forward or does it really just amount to political survival? >> i think his agenda here at the midterm is very much in question because he doesnt stick to a subject very long. i was going over the year for a year-ender feature. you can go back to january when he held out the prospect of a bipartisan immigration bill and especially for the so-called dreamers who came to this country as children to protect their legal status. he said give me a bipartisan bill and ill s...

Have a job to do. and we hope that they hear the message that the voters sent this last midterm, they want a balance of power against so many of these abuses of power. >> also in june of 2016, felix sater invited michael cohen to russia for an economic conference and promised an introduction to the russian prime minister, and maybe putin. he has been cooperating with the mueller investigation over a year turning over documents and e-mails. what else do you think sater knows? >> i always thought ...