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Say i'm validated, i'm angry at my school teacher, gaza. i'm going to go blow something up. you're right about the free speech issue on the internet. we're already seeing that pendulum swing. youtube is taking off extremist videos that would have been out there as soon as -- as recently as a year ago. i think we'll head into a stage where there's a conversation about google searches, can you search how to make a bomb at home and is that search going to be allowed on the internet? good free speech question but we're just starting it now. >> what about the white house case, james? look, you're l...

Been -- and politics in general across the united states has been flipped on its head given the phenomenon of donald trump and also the election we saw earlier this tuesday. i think conventional norms have been thrown out the window. and i think that's why you're seeing this sort of, you know, splintering of the republican party and why so many republicans are leaving office. and i think, honestly, that gives a lot of credence to why democrats are looking at potentially picking up seats, maybe even the 24 seats necessary to win back the house. i think people are tired, voters are anxious, and ...

Talk to their predecessors. >> that's true. >> if you were to be joe biden, you would want to know what's happening if you were to run in 2020 so you would know what the bad stuff was. i want to finish with this. and this is the election on tuesday. then we have a couple of days to soak it in. and what it means about potential coalition for democrats as they look forward. beth, what did you takeaway from it? what can they put together for wins? >> huge pendulum swing. a year ago we were trying to look at the overlooked trump value, noup we are looking at the collusion of the winning in virgini...

College educated women, the republicans got trounced in the state legislature races which means a grassroots movement is there. the concern is remember how obama did so well when he was on the ticket but then when he was off the ticket coming got trounced? the warning signs, because of trump's loyal base and he is a persona driven movement that when he's not there in a midterm or off-year election, people aren't going to turn out and it's going to be in anti-trump vote. >> dana: part of that was because obama pretty much didn't worry about it. he let the party do it. he was like the party of o...

Scott brown's special election, then the next year when chris christie won that race in new jersey in solid blue new jersey. and that was the beginning of -- the beginning of what would become the tea party wave in 2010, also beginning of reckoning with what the political backlash to the obama era would look like. we've had a bunch of special elections in which democratic victories didn't materialize at least in the congressional level, and a question about whether some similar kind of pendulum swing was in the offing, which i think was the source of that anxiety. and tonight at least just loo...