there's hope when collyer professor at bard college as always thank you welcome. let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world an acclaimed russian film and theater director has appeared in a moscow court on embezzle mn charges. curry sarah brady coffee is accused of misusing more than two million dollars of state funding for a future project his supporters say that he is the target of a crackdown on artistic independence under president vladimir putin. authorities in peru say that 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 suspected of selling babies and children taken from four women gynecologists and a paediatrician were also detained in early morning raids. in cameroon seventy nine boarding school students who were taken hostage by separatists have been released reports say the kidnappers are still holding three adults taken from the school the children aged between eleven and seventeen were seized early on monday morning

so let's get some more analysis on this now we are joined by irwin collyer professor of economics ad bard college so as we're seeing there you know it's a bit of a mixed bag both sides though are selling this midterm election as a success so let's really gerald's out into it because we have a divided congress now some might say we have a divided nation we have a check on the president as well what is all of this going to mean for governing over the next two years while this is a lot to handle let's kind of take it apart from the very beginning both sides are going to spin but the fact that the republicans have the control of both the house and senate. and they don't now is a huge change in the possibilities for the trump administration to coordinate anything at all as far as legislation so this puts the democrats in a position of actually being a check and it's not just the legislation the fact of it now congressional committees will be chaired by democrats there will be no topic with respect for instance to donald trump's possible collusion with foreign governments whether saudi or

and big milestones in this election let's get more with our win collyer professor of economics at bard college welcome our when i want to talk first though about the dynamics now that we're going to have in washington because this is going to be a mix congress with the republicans in the senate senate the democrats controlling the house so you really have two options here you're either going to see bipartisanship things getting done or gridlock how do you anticipate that the next two years might go i would not put my money on bipartisanship right now what we've seen is a beachhead has been established by the democrats in the sense of checks and balances montague's. skews idea of having checks and balances that the legislative can be a check on the executive here congress is needed the house of representatives together with the senate is needed for legislation now this now the democrats are on board not only that they have the power for investigations of all sorts they can subpoena on the whole variety of issues from collusion through corruption of the sitting president so donald trump