embraced an anti-democrati anti-semitic, and in some case conservative supreme court too away the 50-year-old constitutional right to an abortion we ll get to all of that and more tonight, but we begin a the end of this year, and th historic results for the midterm election democrats gained a seat in the senate, and republicans manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory historically, midterm election have been outright disastrou for a first term president, an the party in power as msnbc political commentator democratic presidents in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 4 house seats in five senate seats. since watergate, the results have looked even worse for the party. democratic presidents in their first midterms have 44 house seats and six senat seats. many political observers o both sides of the aisle were expecting a political bloodbat on the level of, say, 1994 s republican revolution, for instance when democrats lost 52 house seats an
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contested races for senate and governor. and the 25-year-old is aiming to be the first gen z member of congress. plus, the politics of religion in the conservative candidates going to an extreme. the church is supposed to direct the government. the government is not supposed to direct the church. that is not how our founding fathers intended. i m tired of the separation of church and state dunk. that provocative discussion on faith in government. i am michael steele in for my friend jonathan capehart. and this is the sunday show. this sunday, if donald trump is not supposed to have it, that it is probably at mar-a-lago. on friday we saw the heavily redacted affidavit explaining why the fbi felt it was necessary to search trump s florida home. now we are learning that the office of the director of national intelligence is conducting a threat assessment, trying to figure out, the quote, potential risk to national security posed by trump s document hoarding. meaning the inte