beyond those specific charges. it, like the other indictment from john durham, seems designed to try to further this project of making the russia investigation itself seem like a scandal. we're going to get into it, we've got more on that coming in in just a few minutes with a former fbi senior counterintelligence official. but where i want to start tonight is with a story that i think isn't getting nearly enough attention. i think this story is lightning in a bottle. it has broken this week, but not broken nearly widely enough.ghth in the last midterm elections, the elections we had in 2018, you'll recall that was a really good election for democrats. the so-called blue wave election right in the middle of president trump's term. trump and all the republicans got elected in 2016. 2018 the democrats came back, swept to power in the u.s. house.01 there were hopes at the time something similar might happen in the senate. republicans had just a narrow majority heading into the 2018 midterms. they only had 51 seats. democrats saw a real