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Joining me now senator minority leader schumer. minority leader schumer i want to start with tuesday night's election. big democratic gains in the house and some warning signs for republicans in the suburbs. republicans in the senate look poised to grow their majority, flipping three blue seats in missouri, north dakota and indiana, as well as potentially in florida. why didn't the democratic message resonate in those states? >> let me say this, jake. the election was a great victory for democrats, taking back the house with up to 35 seats is huge. seven governorships, lots of legislative race...

Committed impeachable conduct. i was proud to follow that article of impeachment up. we have 18 sponsors. i've worked it and worked it but we only had 18 sponsors. it has to be tried by the senate. there's one thing about knowing somebody and feeling somebody has committed an impeachable offense and another thing about working with the leadership of your party and i will look to mr. nadler and leader pelosi and try to work within the framework of what they highlight. in 2016 when i was elected, big democratic year, we had what we called six for '06 and we had six priorities and they included b...

President. this is trump country. there is no reason that the republicans should not win this race unless we have a big democratic year. amy mcgrath, retired from the military. fighter pilot. one of the first races we'll see. watch the results come in. number one, is it close? number two, the republicans winning by how much? number three if the democrat is ahead in this district, an early indication. and at the 7:00 hour, this will fill in with results in georgia. two races that we say are leaning republican, but we have to watch these. karen handles won the special election. health and human ...

Interest in voting this year. please tell ounce a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest. how interested are you in voting in this year's election? i know it seems like sort of an esoteric question, but this is one of the questions they've been asking in this poller for years and years and years, and they ask it the same year. so we can compare election results to the response to that question. it turns out to be a fairly predictive question, and you can see it in past elections. this was just looking at elections where we didn't have a congressional race on the ballot. the last time was ...

In 2006 you might remember that ended up being a big democratic year. democrats took the house in the -- and the senate that year. ahead of that election in 2006, this was the response to that question and that poll. democrats showing intense interest in voting that year in 2006, 69% of democrats that year said their interest in voting that year they would rate a 9 or 10 on a scale of 1 to 10, and that far outpaced the number of republicans who said the same thing. the election results followed that very same pattern that was 2006. four years later in 2010, you might remember that was a big re...