rose hirschel and andy shreeves. robert and susan rosenbaum.he corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again from washington, moderator yamiche alcindor. >> good evening and welcome to a special edition of washington week. it has been a wild midterm cycle. election day has stretched into election week. it is still unclear which party will control the house or the senate. several key races, votes are being counted. votes could take weeks. republicans are expected to hold a slim majority in the house, 28 races undecided in the senate. three races undecided. next month, the high-profile georgia senate race between raphael warnock, republican herschel walker will go to a runoff. the race could end up determining which party controls the senate. while there is a lot of uncertainty, the republican red wave simply did not happen. many of former president trump's highest profile endorsements ultimately lost their ras. it has led some to question whether trump is a drag on the

sandra and carl -- rose hirschel and andy shreeves. robert and susan rosenbaum. the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪ announcer: major funding for "tell me more with kelly corrigan" is provided by the quad family foundation, susan d david tunnell donor advised fund through the san francisco foundation, and by the gordon and llura gund foundation. people who know it back to front will tell you the constitution is in some ways miraculous. 39 men, one as young as 26, another as old as 81, debated for 3 months every word in a document that still guides our government today. they distributed power between two kinds of lawmakers-- federal and state judges and one president. they built in checks and balances, knowing some of us will grasp for power by any means. and ironically, the document itself assured rights to one group over all others. and though amended,

rose hirschel and andy shreeves. robert and susan rosenbaum. the corporation for public oadcasting.nd by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> from washington, moderator yamiche alcindor. >> good evening and welcome to washington week. we begin with the heartbreaking series of mass shooting this thanksgiving week. last weekend, a gunman opened fire inside of a nightclub come along considered to be a safe space for the lgbtq community with an historically conservative city. at least five people were killed. more than a dozen others injured. tuesday night in chesapeake, virginia, another gunman killed at least six people and injured others at a walmart. according to the gun violence archive, in the u.s. just this year, there have been more than 600 mass shootings. joining me to discuss this in more, the white house bureau chief for the washington post, dave phillips, national correspondent for the new york times, and susan page, the washington bureau chief at usa today. and a national investigative correspondent for politico. thank you for being here.

rose hirschel and andy shreeves. robert and susan rosenbaum. the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. announcer: major funding for "tell me more with kelly corrigan" is provided by the quad family foundation, susan and david tunnell donor advised fund through the san francisco foundation, and by the gordon and llura gund foundation. ♪ go to any high-school english class, and listeno the kids talk about "to kill a mockingbird" or "romeo and juliet." whether they realize it or not, they are revealing what scares them, what thrills them, the kinds of people they hate and love. so it is with us. what author's work have you returned to over and over? what lines do you know by heart? what albums have you been playing for years? these are the signals to the world and to ourselves about our values, about our intellectual and moral influences. nick hornby-- author of "high fidelity"