>> griff: julie, let's bring in congressman jodey arrington, from texas. happy thanksgiving.nk you for being here. you just heard christina's great reporting. your initial thoughts on this whole fight between mccarthy and mayorkas? >> well, it's a sad commentary for our country, a country as great as ours, for our government to cede controlled the border to drug cartels that poisoning american people by the tens of thousands. this administration is not serious. nobody believes them. the very facts that are being disseminated out of the department of homeland security are contrary to the claims that secretary mayorkas is making, ridiculously enough, that the border is secure. we have record numbers of apprehensions, record numbers of migrant deaths, record flow of narcotics. we have a record number of people on the terrorist watch list. so it's just more washington diversion and deflection. they are not taking responsibility, and they are just going to continue, i believe, to appease the open border left, and lead the american people vulnerable to the disastrous effects and th

for more on the national results, republican vice-chairman jodey arrington and pollster lee carter.ood to see you both. congressman, start with you first. the thousand foot view based on results we have so far. we are waiting on two see senate races more information to come in. it wasn't necessarily the red tsunami but it wasn't that bad either? >> no. it was a red wave in pockets of the country and i think your viewers are familiar with those. where we were competing in marginally democrat districts we won them. we all wish we would have done better. i don't think a republican out there would say differently but you know this is the first time we've won back the house, republicans anyway, control of the u.s. house since 1954. we've got the power of the purse now. it's a 50% plus one proposition for the majority in the house and if you've got that, then you control the agenda. you can provide oversight as a check against an activist and overreaching administration, a lawless administration, possibly one that weaponizes institutions of democracy. so there is a lot of positive things