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Republican strategist doug high and former cnn political commentator, van jones. did democrats over achieve in these midterms because of their platform or because they happen to being going up against people like kari lake? >> it was a combination. even mitch mcconnell saud they had candidate quality problems. some of their people sucked and would not be good in the general election. i think also some of the things that they thought, republicans thought were going to be super weapons, you know talking about crime all the time, talking about the woke agenda, it just turned out to be -- it did n...

Of the incident. hobbs' attorney is calling for the attorney general to bring charges against the officers. now, we have reached out to the sheriff's office, we also reached out to the district attorney. we have not heard anything back as far as their comment. hobbs is in custody in north carolina. and we should also point out something else for full transparency here, some of the information in this story was gleaned from cnn contributor bakari sellers, sellers who is an attorney is also representing hobbs. but, still, very disturbing to watch, kaitlan. >> martin, thank you for that update. ...

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Can fix it? >> well, he hired people who understood automotive technology. he hired people who understood space technology. he has to do the same thing here. this is very complicated. he mastered rocket science. here we're talking about democracy. we're talking about free speech. he has to surround himself with, rather than firing, the people who have spent their lives seeking to master this en interrelationship between democracy and technology. if he doesn't do that, we'll have the same kind of disasters we've been witnessing in terms of the assaults on democracy during the 2020 election cycl...

Potentially succeed nancy pelosi as speaker of the house. current house minority leader kevin mccarthy wants the job, but we're learning at least one pro-trump lawmaker will challenge him for the top spot. but republicans haven't quite secured the majority just yet. the number of seats needed for a house majority is 218, and here we are one week after the election. neither party is there. republicans are inching closer with 215, so far we'll talk about some of those remaining races in just a minute. first, let's get to cnn's manu raju on the hill. manu, how do republicans expect things to shak...