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And nancy pelosi became speaker. right after that 2006 midterm, when democrats picked up so many seats and did so well and took back control on capitol hill, right after that, the bush administration responded to that election result immediately. this has sort of been lost. i heard andrea mitchell mention this today. i was like oh, yeah, this was this day 12 years ago. the day after the 2006 midterms, after we learned for the first time that nancy pelosi would be speaker of the house, the day af...

Furious about the course of the iraq war. donald rumsfeld was not only running that war, he was essentially its public defender in chief. and so, after that 2006 midterm, the bush white house responded to that scream from the voters by pushing rumsfeld out the very next day. well, now today, weve got something thats not exactly a parallel. i mean, today, its 1 year 12 y later. voters last night screamed once more. democrats took control of congress once again. nancy pelosi will once again be asc...

But you know, right after that 06 midterm, when democrats picked up so many seats and did so well and took back control on capitol hill, right after that, the bush administration responded to that election result immediately. i dont know -- this has sort of been lost. i heard andrea mitchell mention this today, as soon as we got todays big news and i was like, oh, yeah, thats exactly right, that was this day, 12 years ago. the day after the 2006 midterms, you know, after we learned for the first...

We were pleasantly -- it was a pleasant surprise, ill say that. we worked extremely hard. we had so many people engaged in our campaign. we were taking the message door to door. we increased turnout here in a way we havent seen in a midterm in a long time. i think that played a big part of it. >> to defeat a committee chairman, im sure voters said it was part of the dallas morning news editorial. i think it was part of the dallas mayors complaints. but part of the reason i think dallas city offi...

Happened thanks to the democrats just romping in the house. nancy pelosi will be speaker of the house once again. 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 asendance was a few years overdue. the first midterm election in the george w. bush era, it was just after 9/11, the president had started one war and about to ...

People come through the system and become chairmen and in another drives people out. when they are a chairman you dont want to go and youre a big deal and all of a sudden youre not doing that anymore so they leave. we had a lot of them leave. i guess you can flip a coin as to which system is better, the democrats do the other. some of their folks have been on those committees for a long time as chairmen. in 2010 president obamas first midterm, he lost 63 seats. by contrast as of the most current...

Formal news conference in the east room of the white house. it is a tradition on the day after a midterm for the president to walk out and hold this kind of news conference. usually presidents acknowledge that theyve, as weve been saying, had a little shellacking. this president will no doubt not acknowledge that at all and lost a lot of republicans in the house of representatives but gained seats in the senate and im sure will focus in on that and open up with an opening statement, in effect, d...

Question is whether or not the early votes are contributing to this. record early voting for a midterm in florida. and im actually going to go to nia now for some results in the governors races. >> in florida, dana, this race weve been watching closely, andrew gillum still ahead, about 120,000 vote lead at this point over ron desantis. you can see about 53% of the vote is in at this point. its a tight, tight race down there, about two points. in ohio, well go here. richard cordray, the democrat ...

Possibly the future of the president and those in his orbit. he is singularly focused on this investigation. so, yeah, shakeups i think are unusual after a midterm. but we cant lose sight of the fact that the person that sits in that seat at main justice as the attorney general, top cop, has significant influence on the president. >> all right, guys. everybody stand by. i want to bring in democratic congressman joaquin castro of texas, a member of the intelligence and foreign affairs committee. ...

To talk to him in a few moments. when you talk to people close to the president this morning, they do seem to understand what he is up against in the house. they understand that he has to come out and declare victory. they did have a good night in the senate. as one close trump adviser said to me earlier this morning, the democrats are going to quote torture him when it comes to requesting tax returns and investigations that they want to launch. the president is not really acquainted with all of...