this is d w news live from berlin democrats win control of the u.s. house of representatives but president trump calls the midterm elections a tremendous success after a strong showing by republicans a democratic majority in the house could hamper president from suggest but the republicans make gains in the senate and beat back strong challenges from democrats in state governor races so what will these results mean for the second half of the trump presidency while full analysis from washington and our experts on so.

i'm brian thomas great to have you with us both democrats and republicans are claiming bragging rights after the u.s. midterm elections with the results pointing to a mixed picture and the first nationwide vote since president trumps election two years ago democrats are now on track to take control of the u.s. house of representatives but republicans have actually expanded their majority in the senate and also defeated strong democrat challengers in state governor races let's take a look at the standings in the election for the house of representatives overseen there is a gains for the democrats the republicans though keeping up their side of it let's take a look at the senate now how that race is looking. here it's the republicans who had the best showing with the democrats falling behind even from expectations

as recent as yesterday while democrat nancy pelosi of california could again become speaker of the house a job she held from two thousand and seven to two thousand and eleven now she has promised that this house leader she would exert greater oversight of the trumpet ministration. thanks to our own well being and day in america. is more than the dow chemical that the republicans it's about restoring the constitution's checks and balances to the companies for you. it's about anything about these special interest free reign over washington the more than anything is it down to what a new democratic majority will mean in the lives of hardworking americans damn it was when i said that. dammit thanks tyga congress that works for the people

will have accountability and we will strive for bipartisanship with airing this on all sides we will have a responsibility to find our common ground where we can stand our ground where we can't but we must try. ok new day in america for the democrats president trump has given his initial reaction to the outcome of the midterm election he tweeted simply this tremendous success tonight thanks to all our washington correspondent meyer's schrader is standing by for us on capitol hill let's bring that connection up now good to see you maya is the president's measure of success the fact that his republicans have not been swept away by a blue wave. well brian it certainly wasn't a tsunami as democrats were hoping but it was a blue wave of sorts the democrats certainly have something to celebrate tonight

not only did they retake the house of representatives for the first time in eight years as we said but they actually did better than expected some estimates are saying they're going to gain up to thirty five seats when they only needed twenty three to regain their majority but the president is not wrong in calling it a success for republicans either not necessarily a tremendous success that might be a little strong word choice there but is that fact that they did manage to expand their hold on the senate and now this was going to be extremely difficult for the democrats to win there and they think that they were sort of trying to thread the needle with winning a few more states rose simply trying to hold the states they had because as it turns out the republicans manage a flip a few to their favor all in all a mixed picture a mixed bag for a very divided country ok miles done by will be getting back to you in just

a bit. long lines of people waiting to vote like here in california due to the sheer number of votes is in this election. and due to some technical voting glitches across the country. this morning we got here as when the polls opened to seven we wanted to be in line like to order an eye and so we were told that the machines weren't working and that they had called so one they didn't know at that time how long it will be so we've been in line for. five hours. it's really all about president donald trump. is that we have a president of the united states who is a powerful logical lawyer. and is

doing something that no president in my lifetime has ever done and that is instead of bringing the american people to get off he is trying to the far you know it's. democrats cautiously predicted a blue wave hoping to win both the house and the senate. it seems they were wrong i think james carville said it best when he said anybody that was in to subpoena blue wave tonight's not going to get it maybe you get a ripple but i certainly don't think that there's a way we're here to do that appearance in texas which was seen as a bellwether a senate race the republican ted cruz won. this election was a battle of ideas but it was a contest for who we are and what we believe. the house is a much closer cool democrats have had key wins in pro trump and traditionally

republican districts but whatever the final numbers for the house democrats will undoubtedly come out of this feeling brought the disappointed. ok a mile what was behind the disappointment why did the blue wave the democrats hope for failed to materialise. well there were a lot of factors going into tonight and one of them was trump coming out and campaigning very strongly for a lot of candidates in some very tricky close races including two that i should mention one is the gubernatorial race in florida where the democrat and or guillem conceded a little while ago that was a very close very contentious very racially charged campaign there especially because gillum was campaigning to be the first ever african-american governor of florida trump came down and managed to pull the republican across the finish line there and we're still waiting for

a final call on the gubernatorial race in georgia where there was another white male candidate versus a black female candidate in a very very charged race and again trump came down campaigned for the republican and it looks like as of right now when i last checked the republican was had a strong lead there so trump was a big factor in all of this and that may have put a damper on democrats hopes about the issues what was the issue that resonated most with voters in this election was it health care or was it immigration. it really depends on which party you are supporting there of the trump has really given a gift of sorts so close to this midterm election in the form of this this caravan that's reported to be coming up from central america heading towards the southern u.s. border of migrants and refugees looking to seek asylum he was able to point to that caravan and say look this is exactly what i'm talking about these people are

invading they're coming to steal your jobs vote for republicans because democrats want to let those people in and for democrats health care really was one of the big issues here particularly the defense of obama's signature affordable care act and now that the democrats have controlled the house of representatives a repeal of the affordable care act which is something that republicans have been pushing for sense it was passed it looks even more unlikely now ok well the next u.s. congress as we've been hearing my will be more diverse in fact the most diverse ever record number of women have been elected most of them democrats and several who broke racial and other social barriers these history makers include i would sandra ocasio cortez she becomes the youngest woman ever elected to congress the twenty nine year old new yorker won a seat in the house incumbent to become the first native american and gay woman elected to the house of representatives so my how much of a surprise were these results. there are very few out

right surprises tonight brian but what does what this does indicate is exactly what a lot of democrats have been waiting for really sense january twenty first twenty seventeen the day after president trump was sworn into office when we saw the massive women's marsh take place not only here in d.c. but around the world where a lot of women were saying i'm going to run for office we need change in this country and i'm going to be the person to do that now we're seeing not only one of the most female but one of the most diverse congresses that's going to be coming in here very shortly and a lot of this is very much in direct reaction to president trump to a lot of his rhetoric a lot of his. some would say massaging this anti-woman rhetoric a lot of the policies he supports against immigrants disenfranchising. people transgender people this is a movement that has been in direct answer to that we'll see what kind of muscle

they can flex once they get here ok mara thanks for the perspective from capitol hill. let's get some international perspective now i'm here with daniela schwarzer director of the german council on foreign relations the d.j. p. dental thanks so much for being with us what are your initial reactions to the results were saying could have been worse i mean the expectations in europe were all over the place there was obviously a huge hope for a blue wave and the fact that the house will probably go to the democrats is good news but the results as your report showed could have been better from the european perspective because good results mean a stronger control of the u.s. president through the democrats ok you have that now and terms of what the expertise is for for europe but do you think that these results will affect the president terms of his ability to implement the america first agenda that has so many critics here in europe i believe that he will try and implement his agenda

even more strongly if in those results he has two years to go to his two to reelection he will probably be seeking as he has said and so i would say from the european perspective the next two years will be as interesting and as challenging as the pasta you have been and i don't believe that those electoral results will in any way calm down quite the opposite today but what using about america's competitors and its enemies abroad i'm thinking about iran competitor beijing moscow will these capitals see the president now is as weakened and feel emboldened to challenge america well they they might see him as slightly weakened obviously he could have had better results and that would have unleashed him even more but i think the analysis will be all over the world that he is in a situation where he will use foreign policy to an even larger extent for domestic

goals and his america first policy has a domestic dimension and everything he does externally is a function of that so whenever he needs. that he will be he will be challenging externally he will see conflict he will be incalculable for his allies and europe has seen that for the past two years that he is full of surprises full of challenges and i think you know it's very hard to say whether you know although his results could have been better last night and he he there's no reason to assume that he will come down and ok this is what is a mean for german american relations do you see more pressure than coming from the white house on berlin in terms of trade for example very possibly so yes germany has been challenged by trump since that he came into office on trade in particular and on energy as well his his positions on the project north stream which is a pipeline to russia so i would have no reason to expect that this will come down

on the other hand the way germany thinks about transatlantic relations is not only the german government and the white house but rather the efforts our efforts have been made to build close contacts with other institutions with people beyond washington and now having a house which has a democrat majority obviously means there is an end to action partner here with whom you can discuss transatlantic issues and also developments in europe in a possibly more balanced way ok so you see germany indeed more strongly now with the house or with those elements of washington that are now back in the game so to speak indeed yes ok dan you know of the council of foreign relations a d j p thanks very much thank you. well in the lead up to these midterms voter suppression was a major concern in a number of states a group of volunteers from georgetown university in washington d.c. set out to regain trust most voters they're the first to collect sample based data

from polling stations to find out whether this vote has actually been fair. i absolutely see a containment dome. ok i mean that tell you how is one of over one hundred and twenty fallen to who support the organization observed d.c. they are collecting data on the election process as a polling stations in the district of columbia because according to them this was missing during past elections. this is the first time that this kind of observations ever happened in the united states it's called sample based observation and what that means is that an observer is assigned to a specific polling place and stays there the entire day reporting and information about the process this information includes whether polling stations were opened on time if the vote was entirely secret and if people with disabilities could easily

access the polling station and then are there magnifying glass is one place. ok. the results are then immediately analyzed by ben at georgetown university the final results will be published online and made accessible to politicians and voters so far it's looking good the core mission of the grant that i was awarded was to try and rebuild some of the trust that may be lacking in the united states right now and in our own small been away we're trying to do that through election taggerty work. for the next elections the man and his team hope that this type of observation will simply be a no manatee not only in d.c. but everywhere in the u.s. . well voters have turned out in record numbers this should've been celebrated as a victory for democracy instead in a number of states it's turned into a real logistical problem boaters of had to wait in line for hours at polling stations machines have been having problems and there's been

a lot of difficulties out there in a number of states carl now spends tracking the story for us karl what you've been seeing i mean look the majority of voting when pretty smoothly were in so many problems but in five states in particular we saw watts of issues as you mentioned long lines was one of them in fact voters were documenting the issues at their local polling stations and here's some of what they showed us it was pretty put it that way let's start in north carolina this video shows a two to three hour wait just to get inside the polling center this is an area with a lot of voters some eight thousand registered voters there a lot of them had to wait in lines just like that one this is in atlanta georgia of course a battleground states a night a local reporter on the ground says hundreds of voters here waited hours this morning why well they were only three voting machines to go around also here in georgia a local voter took this video just look how long that line is going all the way

down the hallway in some parts of georgia in fact judges had to order the precincts to stay open longer for that exact reason and now in brooklyn in new york some voters just kind of gave up here you see people leaving in crown heights after waiting two hours reportedly some voting machines there were broken just lots of overcrowding brian we've also seen reports of even bigger problems broken scanners a shortage of voting materials even as you see faulty voting machines this is from indiana a voter trying to select a democratic candidate but it just isn't working it keeps coming defaulting back to the republican clearly a faulty machine there some machines are may have actually been tampered with the voters have a picture inside his voting booth he writes i feel like something has gone wrong if i can access the u.s.b. stick in this voting machine. he had the ability even to quote close pollsters by pressing a button you can see their little door has been opened with access to the machine that's not could sign

a lot of talk of course after twenty sixteen after that election of foreign interference in the election but clearly there's a lot of work to be done domestically in terms of resources and getting those machines up to date ok a lot to look in there into there karl thanks very much for that more have much more on the midterms in a moment with gardell first from our business desk first let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news today before the man accused of mailing bombs to prominent democrats and other critics of the president has appeared in a new york court to face criminal charges says our side. was denied bail and faces up to forty eight years in prison if convicted. authorities in peru say a former head of the national police force is under arrest accused of involvement in a baby trafficking ring the police chief is among fifteen people suspect of selling babies and children taken from poor women. gynecologists in a pediatrician were also detained an early morning rates. united nations

says dozens of children in a hospital in yemen could die as fighting closes in on the port of data a hospital is the only functioning one in the area it's treating children with severe malnutrition were in yemen has already produced the world's worst humanitarian crisis. we're back with the midterms erhard now and we're getting some first market reaction and the economic consequences from these ripple results that's right bryan on asian markets they were the first to open of course the mid-term election results seem pretty much priced in in tokyo the nikkei they stand slightly more than half a percent before dropping when the result was became clear the stock market in hong kong was also up before sliding into negative territory analysts in asia say as congress is best for the market it allows president trump to continues business and growth friendly policies while the gridlock will keep

a check on some of his more is rusted disruptive market market actions like the trade battle with china u.s. stock futures on to a strong opening on wall street later today. well if it really is the economy stupid as bill clinton is often quoted it should have been a walk in the park for the republicans with their president in office they went into these midterms on a strong economy tour of fifty thousand new jobs were created in october the us labor market is considered to be near full employment g.d.p. growth in the third quarter came in a three and a half percent of markets further drum as happy to take credit for steady rise in stocks now my colleague last heard of a bit of your business joins me now here in the studio last you've reported from was street for us for decades is the current standing of the count proof that most americans did not believe that it was all trumps doing i guess them is it one thing first donald trump himself over the last couple of weeks of the complaint did not

make this election about the economy anymore the economy played second fiddle to other topics here of course immigration the perceived threat of a caravan so it was ironically because we do have a strong economy in the united states the president himself who went off topic here he did not run on a strong economy he ran on fear and everything so he took this basically out of the equation almost but of course yes as you mentioned we have a very strong economy in the united states right now unemployment is down g.d.p. growth is good but of course that was not all of president trump's doing everybody in america knows that wall street knows that investors know that the economic boom has of course started about ten years ago under the obama presidency unemployment started falling drastically under the obama presidency from almost ten percent to four percent now it's under five percent and now it's under four percent so yes under president trump that very strong economic trend has continued but it's

obviously not all his doing but he is tax reform part of course they did the tax reform that the republicans put in place has played a very strong part in getting the economy to go maybe. even stronger but it helps most businesses it was a huge corporate tax cut it was a tax cut for the wealthy none of that trickles down to the consumer to voters and even president trump i found that really interesting over the last couple of days only has almost admitted that when he threw out a possible tax cut for the middle class just days before the election just about last week he came out has said he's planning a tax cut a huge tax cut for the middle class ten percent or so or less and he said that even though congress is not in session he talked about it like this was a done deal and it just needs another signature of course none of this is planned right now so while the tax cut was a good thing for the american economy it helped mostly the rich and the corporate

community it did not really help most americans you talk about the rich in the cocoa. does wall street lie don't shop was so is so is the is obviously liked by the banks by the investment community because there's deregulation efforts the republicans have for the deregulated the banks after of course they have been regulated much more following the financial crisis of about ten years ago and now that deregulation of course leads them to get higher profits of paying less in taxes all these things of course make the president very popular in that particular community other than that of course there hasn't been a lot of work done in let's say infrastructure spending incident in some other ways a lot of businesses in america have their own problems with the president so it's really a mixed picture here what does this result. should become reality mean for trump's trade policy what trade policy might end up being less extreme

finally in the end because we had a situation over the last two years with republicans not only controlling the white house but both houses of congress that the republicans basically were able to put in legislate. and the democrats could of course vote against it but with having no majority not do much about it and now with the democrats being in a majority position in the house as it's very much looks like at this hour. they are at least able to open up these legislative packages and maybe add something take something out make amendments or so and so i think that's going to make a lot of the trump policy over the next two years a lot less extreme move it slightly more towards middle ground and of course that that would help the economy as well what's the next you cannot make that trump needs to cross and come the democrats make him stumble i don't see much of an economic hurdle right now the big question is really just how long can he keep the

economy going like this especially if you look at the markets specifically stocks we have seen a ten year bull market everybody knows this is on its last leg so i think that's at some point coming down whether there's a majority or not last out of need of your business thank you very much welcome. that's all your business here's a reminder the top story we're following for you. increase the majority in the senate they also defeated democrats in a number of closely watched governors was president. the first nationwide vote since his election two years ago as a tremendous success. today. just download all rock from google play. to all the latest

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