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Their selves for a shutdown that just caused a great deal of agony across the country. it was striking. he made this claim that there are government employees who have been getting through this just fine. he suggested that government employees are getting through this just fine. that just suggests that he's not looking at the real -- when he looks outside the window of the oval office, he's not looking at the real world and so that is why if folks are wondering at home, could we be here in the exact same place three weeks from now, i think that's probably not a bad bet to make. my sense is he'...

>> okay, so let's continue. let's say we're in this upside down world, nia-malika henderson, and hopefully the government wants to right this and so, all right, they reopen the government for three weeks, they try to get their together and what if they don't? i'm pushing this forward. if this goes into national emergency territory, does that then, you know -- who wins there, i guess? is it the president because he potentially would get the money for what he wants, this wall and democrats win because they get to say, see, we didn't cave? >> who knows in terms of that scenario, the national emer...

She emerges remarkably again as almost certainly to be the speaker of the house. more than a decade after she first won it. she's now the first female speaker again. but still i think a really remarkable run. >> okay. your next winner is also from upside down world, which is beto o'rourke o'rourke. he lost, i may remind you. >> here's what's interesting about politics. you can win by losing sometimes. if politics is judged by winning and losing, he lost. but look at 2020 polling in iowa and in new hampshire nationally. beto o'rourke is in the top three, which is remarkable given that two years...

Almost certainly to be the speaker of the house. more than a decade after she first won it, not as history making in that she's now the first female speaker again, but still i think a really remarkable run. >> okay. your next winner is also from upside down world, which is beto o'rourke. >> yes. >> he lost i will just remind you. >> great point. appreciate you. so here is what's interesting about politics, you can win by losing at times. o'rourke loses to ted cruz by two points, it's the best showing by a democrat in texas in a very long time, but if politics is judged by winning and losing, h...

When you compare it to these historical times when democrats have had big losses in the past. political reality, the fact that this was a big loss, hasn't permeated the republican bubble. fox news not acknowledging bad news pretty much ever. but you also have foreign leaders. japanese president shinzo abe when he arrived at the g20 summit in argentina congratulated trump on his great midterm election victory which is like living in alice in wonderland's upside down world. for a lot of these republicans, reality has not permeated. there's no real need. >> someone on twitter, i can't remember wh...