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in their beds to take control of the u.s. house of representatives that's more than half of the magic number of twenty three that they need to reach the big magic number of two hundred eighteen and give them a majority now a number of other races in the battleground areas are proving to be neck and neck with peeping across all of them will be bringing them here but it is looking like the republicans are going to retain control of the senate and expanding their current slim majority in the chamber. let's go live now to alan on capitol hill for us and our i mean quite early result that we are now thinking that maybe able to call the republicans keeping control of the senate break it down for us. well ted cruz winning in texas which wasn't a surprise really but there was

a feeling that it could built up momentum and could challenge him to get to within three in a state that hasn't had. a statewide democrat elected for about twenty years that's a pretty impressive sure but ted cruz certainly secures the senate for republicans but that's very much in line with the palsy and one thing we're learning tonight is that the polls were almost pretty sport just to clarify the democrats have indeed picked up twelve seats in the house but they also lost one so the net gain of eleven they're still got a bit to go to twenty three but certainly the idea early on that this blue we've got any momentum. that seems to be knocked on the head in fact our broadcast partners here in the united states n.b.c. are predicting that the democrats will win the house that's still got to be confirmed because obviously there are a number of races still to be called if your worth is in the last hours making the point that the house of representatives well no matter who takes control be

a much different place when expecting to see to be much younger much more diverse and we will certainly have a lot more female members of the house and that is typified by a couple results i want to highlight first of all we're. all mar two muslim women who have one their seats in the house of representatives rashid at large will go down in history as being the first muslim woman to do so we also had alexandra occasional cortez who won her seat as expected in new york she's just twenty nine she becomes the youngest woman ever to take a seat in the house of representatives and then which a nice divots who is an m.m.a. fighter she is also openly gay and she won her seat in kansas and that becomes significant because she is the first native american woman ever to win a seat in congress just watching the governor races as well as a few of them going on tonight and wins in illinois and michigan for the democrats

and an interesting result and this is on the back of better or doing so well against ted cruz pete sessions is a congressman in texas who's won i think is a leaven times in the rule he has just lost his seat so that will give the democrats hope that they can do better in elections in the coming years but particularly when it comes to the presidential election in two years' time and just on that one point to make is that people will see that this is been a bad night for donald trump and that is correct you shouldn't read too much into midterm losses translating into how that will play in the presidential elections in a couple of years time because if you looked. back in history barack obama term bill clinton but mid term ronald reagan but mid term could keep going back the all had bad midterm elections but all won the next election and of course there's a very interesting when in utah for mitt romney he of course you remember the name perhaps he was the republican candidate who stood against barack obama in his

second election and last was considered to be a big critic of donald trump but torn that don't when donald trump was considering him to be secretary of state he went to utah and has won the senate seat there so he will be a freshman senator given all this political experience he will be a freshman senator says all very interesting how it's panning you know but certainly there are some observers on american t.v. saying this isn't a great night for the democrats it actually is they're winning a lot of governor tony races but it looks as if they're going to take control of the house which as you were saying earlier laura makes things a bit more difficult for donald trump and is of ministration exactly i mean i think we can call that the senate has gone to the republicans still too early to say for sure how the lower house is going to go whether it's going to republican or democrat if it does go democrat all way then looking at

a stalemate in governments. well what it does of course is means that there's not one party control in washington anymore donald trump has been on the campaign trail for the last i don't know how many weeks saying that we need to vote republicans if we get republicans we can get things moving in washington and get things done here's the problem with that argument of course is for the last two years he's had that republican majorities in both the senate and the house and people will say that what he's managed to achieve actually has been limited so no you'll have to reach across the alley have to speak to the democrats who are trying to get things through the house already sooner sunders as press secretary saying there's a couple of things that they think they can walk on with the democrats infrastructure being one of them democrats are very keen on that and tackling new york crisis certainly something that the democrats would like to see so this changes things for donald trump but also changes it as well in that the democrats will start oversight on the trump white house the way that we haven't seen up to

this point they will start issuing subpoenas on a number of cases not least the ongoing russia and vest again and remember the row about donald trump's tax returns before the election and how he didn't make them available well if you become the chairman of ways and means and it looks as if a democrat might well do that if the democrats win the house he can ask the i.r.s. for anyone's tax return so he'll be able to access donald trump's tax returns the very next day after becoming the chair passion of that committee so this changes the dynamic in washington quite significantly and here's another interesting thing with that may well get overlooked a lot of districts were rejoined in two thousand and ten and it made it very difficult for democrats to win in these districts because there was always an in-built republican majority in a lot of these places is something your guest was talking about earlier so for the democrats too when these places shows that this is

a big sergeant support for the democrats and that shouldn't be lightly dismissed lightly. ok allan thanks very much for keeping us up to speed very latest numbers there and interesting there on capitol hill i should imagine as update you now on the latest results that we're seeing in this crucial race for the senate there it is we are seeing forty nine seats for the republicans and thirty eight seats for the democrats who are calling it for the republicans of course they do need to gain one more seat to make that a sure fire victory the democrats looking for fifty one because of course the republicans have mike pence the vice president in their back pocket and he can cast the deciding vote in in any close vote democrats trailing quite significantly in the house of congress in the senate let's take a look now at the lower house the numbers. well they're still looking like

don't cross a trailing a little bit republicans on one hundred seventeen the magic number is two hundred and eighteen but we are hearing that the democrats are making pretty significant gains in areas that are. that were voted back in two thousand and sixteen and democrats still pretty hopeful of taking the house of representatives we're going to keep close eye on that figure as well for you many of the president trump signature foreign policies are still in development so the outcome of these elections could have a huge impact on how he proceeds on the international stage because james space has more details. the world is watching these elections very closely and they'll be watching in iran there were fresh sanctions in the last twenty four hours most of those that were lifted under the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal they're now firmly back in place iran's already suffering a great deal of economic damage it's going to get worse they'll need now to make

a political decision in tehran and in part it will depend on these elections perhaps they'll get an early indication of trump's going to be a one term or a two term president and whether they can wait him out the investigation into the death of jamal khashoggi may also be affected by the elections saudi arabia's not cooperating on handing over the suspects or on helping to find the journalist body so they could now be other legal steps if turkey requests it that could perhaps even be an international u.n. led investigation in congress watch for efforts to take action against saudi arabia under the magnitsky act or the possibility of new congressional investigations next yemen with saudi arabia under pressure look for congress to take renewed interest in the devastating war there's already a new push for a ceasefire by the trumpet ministration and i can tell you at the u.n. in new york the u.k. is starting efforts to draw up a security council resolution on the ceasefire the plan is all of this would lead

to peace talks in sweden at the end of the month highly awaited too is the trump administration's middle east peace plan the u.n. has recently been warning of fresh conflict particularly in gaza but the palestinians have already written off the still to be unveiled plan being devised by trump's son in law jared cushion and i'm also hearing whispers that the international criminal court may soon make a ruling on whether to pursue investigations into israeli actions in syria there could be a final military push by the assad regime and its russian allies efforts by the u.n. to get talks going on a new constitution have been making very little progress as a new u.n. special envoy pederson from norway prepares to. start work afghanistan is another key priority for the administration and for the new congress after seventeen years of war the taliban has been gaining ground on the battlefield there's a new effort by the u.s. to talk to the taliban being led by top diplomats. but there's very little

immediate prospect of progress because of afghanistan's own political calendar with presidential elections due in april next year well particle has been discussing the impact from the midterm verdict on foreign policy is the short time ago she was joined by brett brett brown a former obama white house official and republican strategist. frank. the midterm elections are usually all about foreign policy in two thousand and eighteen is really no exception but it is still a factor we've heard many voters say they are voting in order to put a check on u.s. president donald trump and that could have huge consequences for his foreign policy priorities so really take a look at that a little bit of a deeper dive joined right now by brett virtue and he is the former director of global engagement under president barack obama so democrat and franco you're the former advisor to the late senator john mccain so the republican have to be fair here a duffel first i want to talk to you about saudi arabia after the killing of jamal khashoggi there was universal bipartisan condemnation the president seemed to be

the one dragging his feet for maybe put it in that way dragging his feet a little bit and trying to sanction or point blame at the higher highest levels of the saudi government if democrats do take the house as is widely expected does that change the equation knowledge of how the president response to saudi arabia i don't think so and you're absolutely right there has been bipartisan outrage to say the least but you know recently secretary pompei oh i think expressed the president's views and that is this is a serious serious matter and we will continue to press the saudis on it but not willing to risk the relationship with saudi arabia over this even horrific incident but you hit the nail on the head one chamber is likely to shift but the other chamber is and it takes two to really do anything effectively will be in republican hands in all likelihood in the senate so i don't think that will be much of a change and most importantly of all in the united states of course the conduct of

foreign policy the actual conduct not the sort of the appropriation of course of money is in the hands of the president states and not the congress that has evolved that way i don't think the framers expected that to be the case but but let me ask you there's been a lot of reporting especially in the new york times that the treasury ministration has decided that they have to stay with mohammed been some on the crown prince but in exchange. for their support because and in a way to try and exact some concessions from him they are going to try and force him to either end the war in yemen or the gulf crisis either do you think likely it goes beyond that in fact while pompei you know in trump may trying to sweep this under the rug and move on i don't know that the congress both sides of capitol hill the house and the senate are going to let saudi arabia off that easily we've also seen clearly how turkey is playing their hands very carefully and skillfully in this i think the consequences are going to go beyond just

a slap on the wrist the other that i would point out is there's more agreement not only on saudi arabia but on world issues like russia even you know china on capitol hill and we've seen with the white house so foreign policy while it's traditionally been run by the administration may not continue to be so bill schneider is public policy professor at george mason university joins us live now from washington d.c. now we've heard in this program for other guest correspondents that the polls have been pretty spot on and the saying the senate is going to the republicans as it was thought if you agree with that. yes things are going as expected which is very interesting news because in two thousand and sixteen things did not that was expected donald trump was not expected to win and my view is he probably got a mandate out of the fact that he did better than expected this time things went as

expected the house is going to go democratic the senate is going to stay republican and democrats are making some pretty big gains in some important states for governors' races have they done as well as they should have done because there was a huge groundswell of support wasn't there on the republican side at least that's what we heard throughout the media have they managed to capsulize on that as extensively as they could while democrats were in their feverish imaginings they would see a blue wave coming and they're going to completely sweep everyone all the republicans away that was not going to happen what we did see was the blue wave what we saw was polarization we saw republicans rushing to the polls to protect their president democrats who were infuriated by trump opposing him i just looked at the exit poll and i found out that state by state what controlled the outcome was trump's popularity in states where trump is popular republicans did very well in states

where trump is not popular they did not do very well and in states that were closely divided which includes texas the results were closely divided this election was all about donald trump it was not about the economy which is a surprise that is because he didn't capitalize on that did he didn't choose to make this about the economy when he was campaigning he chose more divisive issues such as immigration which rallied faith since from both sides how much do you think donald trump is going to accept responsibility for tonight. he will never accept a defeat on anything. even if he lost the senate he would to explain it away he's already done that but donald trump did get a defeat tonight because there is a house of congress that can actually that will see its mandate is actually trying to stop donald trump the house of representatives the democratic majority in the house will do whatever they can to stop trump be pressure from the left to impeach donald trump which the house can do but it's unlikely they will actually be able to

do it because that splits democrats all the talk of impeachment there are a lot of democratic candidates did bring that up including better or work in texas what that did was drive republicans to the polls to come out and protect their president ok bill schneider for the moment thanks very much we will come back to you for more analysis that from washington d.c. let's and now they are to castrate she's in tucson arizona that we were just. mentioning that. he was against ted cruz in texas next door see you he lost but it was a very close race wasn't it. that's right at much closer than many democratic candidates for senate in texas is recent history there has not been a democrat elected to represent that state in the senate in thirty years and so democrats will i'm sure they're feeling this loss heavily they're having a lot of enthusiasm backing

a war is still significant the fact that he came so close to here in arizona the verdict is still out on the even closer senate race this would be open seat that used to belong to a republican and the republican candidate martha make sally she is still tied as we see these early results coming in with her democratic challenger here since cinema and this race here in arizona is being widely seen as a test of the effectiveness of donald trump's davis of rhetoric when it comes to immigration he was here campaigning on behalf of the republican as well as other border states calling the caravan of central american migrants an invasion he also promoted a racist political ad that try to equate some of those members of the caravan were largely made up of women and children with would be murderers in the u.s. and he also is floating the idea of revoking birthright citizenship so all of those

points red meat for trump's base of white conservatives but in these order states particularly in arizona where one in three voters count themselves as independents and moderates that kind of divison rhetoric may be very offsetting not to mention the large population of latinos here in arizona they make of thirty percent of the population but of the problem with democrats trying to reach the latino is is that they have been historically unsuccessful in getting them to the polls in the proportionate numbers for midterm elections we saw we've seen a pretty big surge in arizona a really voting totals as far as to. now comes but it still remains to be seen whether those latinos who speak who tend to lean democrat have enough of a voice to push the democratic camp as senate. candidate for senate has a finish line here in arizona and absolutely not to mention the house of

representatives raise many districts there in california that could be some of the last coming in on friday is going to be rather a long night for you there heidi but for the moment or leave you in arizona let's go back now to justin sage mitchell system in residence at northwestern university we just heard heidi there talking about the issue of immigration which of course chose to campaign on so heavily do you think that kind of divisive rhetoric played in his favor or in the favor of the democrats by rallying their voters. i have to say it might have worked in the senate races but we aren't necessarily seeing that work in the house races or the governor races kansas is a great example of that laura kelly the democrat appears to be poised to win over kris kobach the republican for for governor of kansas which is a very red state. and so that's an example of you know republicans not necessarily being moved by this this focus on immigration likewise in texas where

you would think they would care about immigration issues you often find people are actually more liberal on the immigration issues in texas than than trumps rhetoric now bedo roark has lost his senate challenge against ted cruz but you could almost call it the bedo effect if we were seeing districts flipping in texas that is part of the fifteen plus districts that we've already seen flipping from the republicans to the democrats we have texas thirty to possibly texas seven. flipping for the democrats maybe because only lost by about three percentage points or so and he got a lot of people out in these districts to to vote for democrats now really would have to check on its axis twenty three that's a that's an outside chance but we might see the better effect there as well the best effect i'm sure he does very energetic is that he does have an effect even

just to watch him campaigning just in the last minute or so we've got all sorts of touch on the economy because that was a real strong point for republicans unemployment has its lowest level in many years just in the last minute that we've got why didn't trump build on that wall it reminded me so much of the one nine hundred eighty four moment in what with ronald reagan's reelection where he put out that morning in america a positive ad just getting everybody so excited about the a condom. he's great everything's good and he won by a landslide i don't know why trump didn't decide to be more positive in his advertising i certainly don't think that that was what the. republicans in congress wanted him to do maybe they will better put their strategies together for the two thousand and twenty election but as of right now health care seems to have won the day over immigration in terms of the most important. most important policy and as

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