but you need 23 to come into the night. these aren t done. you have women in play out there. women in play. you have you re going to get close to what you needed just with the younger women, new candidates. no question. there s a year of the woman dynamic. can you find a few missed opportunities? of course, you can. if you re nancy pelosi, this is what you ve worked for for a long time. this is a big part of the democratic story. disappointment of the senate, and disappointment in the governors races. they re happy because of candidate recruitment, to a large degree, focused on women military veterans. we re processing how much and how many and who does it across the country, focusing mainly on the left. you look at this map and you see the red and the blue. it seems from 2016, confirmed in 2018, our electorate is a story of divergent americans and they re moving in opposite directions. that seems solidified of what we re seeing tonight.
get the articles of impeachment out there. she s been consistently opposed. she s going to navigate that water and figure can we use it as a lever. if i want to be the speaker, do i need to make a promise hold on. hold on. i ve heard others say earlier on cnn, they expressed the sentiment, why would democrats want to work with a president, especially folks who have not wanted to work with them for the past two years. go on. i think to understand what democrats ran on. democrats across the country, these folks that flipped seats, the red and blue candidates, ran on putting a check on the president. they did not run on being the resistance to donald trump. these ran on putting a check on him, holding him accountable, on exercising the oversight that, frankly, their republican colleagues did not run on. there is flow contingent in no contingent in the house of representatives, even new folks, that do want impeachment. i think you ll see with focus like steny hoyer, nancy pelosi,
math. but in the house of representatives this midterm was a referendum on president trump and he badly lost that referendum. how did he lose it? number one he lost it with women. number two, he lost it with independents, women broke against him the day after the inauguration. and so any way you look at it, this is a big gain for democrats. charlie, i need you to help me out. i m confused. in the senate the lines got clearer. three red state democrats lost, moderates are leaving office. so what does that mean for legislation in 2019? because when you look at the exit polls, people are not happy with how divided we are. people don t care as much about the russia investigation as we thought, they want to lead better lives. if these two parties continue to go their separate ways, they re not actually serving the people who vote for them. no. and i think that you re going to have government that will be more divided. all of the division that we ve seen, the red and the blue, the
rivera and laos bergdorf. do you think republicans will keep control of the house and senate. we will. we will make historic in 2018 just like 2016 by reelecting and expanding republican majorities on capitol hill. i think that my primary focus of course has been on the senate because there are so many people in the house and that s a lot of stops. exactly two months ago mike pence said his boss was very confident about winning the house. yesterday the president sure wanted to focus on the other chamber of congress, we will talk about that. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, november 5th. with us we have msnbc nbc contributor mike barnicle, national political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc and author of the red and the blue , steve kornacki. pulitzer prize winning columnist and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson is with us, and
in texas election in my lifetime. thank you, gail. > garrett. steve s new book is the red and the blue worth your read. let s get to your polls. are we head for a blue wave? certainly the democrats are favorite to take the house because they have so many opportunities, but of course hillary clinton was favored, so it doesant always happen. the president s job approval rating, you ve been hearing all year from republicans they thought if a election day they could get him in the mid 40s, that he might have a fighting chance. his average approve rating is 44. now, the interesting thing is there will be more polls that come out this weekend, including our very own nbc news/ wall