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By surprise. >> the only surprising thing about this is the timing happening the very day after the midterm. >> martha: which timing wouldnt have been surprising in these cases? it appears the former attorney general was one person who thought this was a potential eventuality because it appears that he had written an undated resignation letter and he -- the white house had it for some time. there is likely more to come is the president will rearrange more deck chairs as presidents often do aroun...

You ask questions to elicit information from our president so we can know what is going on. >> sean: you know, mark, i put up barack obama in his first midterm, 69 house and senate seats. bill clinton, 60. three times, it has happened where a president is furnished midterm wins as many seats, that is at. >> they are liberals, they are democrats, they like them, so they get treated quite differently. >> sean: great one, we call you the great one for a reason. mark levin, dont miss "life, liberty,...

Have any viewers, anyway, it is for we, the american people. you ask questions to elicit information from our president so we can know what is going on. >> sean: you know, mark, i put up barack obama in his first midterm, 69 house and senate seats. bill clinton, 60. three times, it has happened where a president in his firsts, midterm wins this many seats, that is it. >> they are liberals, they are democrats,y they like them, so they get treateder quite differently.th >> sean: great one, we call...

People do not want the impeachment style. >> do you know who really get that? nancy pelosi gets that. you saw the answer that they are going be very careful and take it step-by-step. she knows if they overplayed their hand, theyll lose all these deeds. >> russia was not a midterm on the issue in the midterms. we saw the exit polls say that 54 of >> laura: immigration number two issue in the state of florida. only behind health care by three points. interesting. guys, fantastic. great to have you...

Then in future races, if ultimately she is the speaker of the house again, they are going to have to grapple with that. she can say look, we won it, im the leader, i deserve this, that is definitely true, but the democrats really performed above average historically for the first midterm election of a new president in the first time. so i think it is a shaky situation for her, and for the democrats because there are plenty of people in the party who would love her not to be the speaker, but they...

Control of the house, but some results are still pending. now, let me put this in perspective. republicans actually had what is an amazing, historically speaking, election night. remember, 44 house republicans retired, that is a massive number. but here is the history, here are the headwinds, that very few people ever talk about. lets go back -- lets start with 2010. barack obamas first midterm. look at that. democrats lost in his first midterm, 63 seats in the house, six seats in the u.s. senat...

With us to try to solve some of the problems that key mom and dads up at night. >> sandra: its a busy morning and a busy week. >> bill: it would not be an interview without you dropping another classic line. >> i dont know what i said wrong, but i deny everything. >> sandra: no, no, we appreciate having you on. for more on this, lets bring on ari ari fleischer. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> sandra: where do we begin? youve been listening to the show, following the news this morning. i...

House but what about historic moves in the senate? >> reporter: we start with republican pickups in the senate, florida, very very close. missouri, josh holly pulled it out by a healthy margin, north dakota, indiana you can see brought over donnelly by a healthy margin, total of four pickups. put that in historical perspective for presidents first term midterm, democrats lost 6 senate seats under barack obama, eight under bill clinton. harry truman in his first term lost 12 seats. a fact not los...

Trump family business and finances, whitaker, then a cnn contributor, wrote, "the president is absolutely correct. that goes beyond the scope of the appointment of the special counsel." and in a television appearance, whitaker defended the infamous trump tower meeting. donald trump jr., paul manafort and jared kushner sitting down with a russian lawyer they were told had dirt on hillary clinton. >> you would always have somebody from the campaign take that meeting and hear that person out. >> re...

Adam schiff will be the intelligence committee. elijah cummings will run house oversight. oversight, did somebody say? in 2006, when nancy pelosi became speaker the first time that was an election in which democrats felt their aessential dance was a few years overdue. think about the timing of the george w. bush presidency, the first midterm election in the george w. bush era, that was anything but a normal cycle, it was just after 9/11, the president had already started one war and was about to...