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Embraced it. welcome back to "morning joe," it is wednesday, october 24th. still with us we have historian and author of "the soul of america" john meacham. professor at princeton university eddie glaude, jr., washington anchor the katty kay and joining the conversation white house reporter for the associated press jonathan lemire and white house correspondent for pbs news hour yamiche al sent do remember. >> jonathan lemire, our worrying led to a red sox victory last night, both of us texting each other throughout the game knowing how doomed the sox were but somehow they managed to squeak by....

Ultimately it costs us. >> it's a reminder we are more similar than we are different. people want a job. they want good education. they want good health care. before et we go, around the horn. we have less than two weeks to go. what's going to happen election day? >> anyone who is makes confident predictions is crazy, but i suspect the republicans are going to do better than maybe many viewers of this et show expect. >> i us celebrate crazy. >> republicans hold the senate. the house is up in the air. i think us democrats might squeak by, but it's a toss up. >> there will be a a blue wave becau...

You accept that. >> is that a hard thing for a soccer? >> no, no. >> you're thinking down the road, not thinking just about this game. >> you look at this. this is a tournament and you just need to get through. it's the result that matters ultimately, and they knew exactly what was going on in the other game. >> all right. now we look forward to tuesday taking on belgium. i want to talk a little bit about what we're going to be facing with this team. >> well, we're facing what everybody calls sort of the everyone's dark horse. >> okay. >> you can't really be everyone's dark horse but that's wh...

Got into the national honor society. it was big deal. my father says that makes me suspicious about the honor roll. i kid to make a point. are we making things so easy, lowering the bar, might make the kid feel good but the mom is saying he is getting encouraged about things likes lack of participation. >> it's harder to get a kid motivate if if he is going to be rewarded anyway. if he gets a cod, why -- a c or d, why try? >> he had to have gotten so many other grays of acor a-pluses to outweigh the cod. it's possible. >> you could do that, squeak by. budgets in washington, we can do this. >> ...

I think that can be catastrophic in electoral terms for the democratic party in the long run. if they essentially eliminate public sector unions the democrats will lose one of their most important and strongest allies they have in any election. so i think the republicans are going to be emboldened by this. with wisconsin, we'll have to watch to see what happens with the state senate races. four on the bubble tonight and that could have a real impact in terms of what happens next in terms of wisconsin's policy. >> this will be close in the end. how does one take a mandate for governor walker's ...