joining us now, how the media missed the story from the start, mollie hemingway. senior editor from "the federalist." what are the chances jim acosta apologizes not only getting this wrong telling the president he was wrong. [laughs] >> it was an amazing exchange to look at. it looked bad at the time, the way he was pontificating giving his opinion which was not based in fact, though he was belligerent with that reporter. that was an embarrassment at the time. after this weekend, it's a complete and utter angulation. this is the guy who was sort of a mascot of the white house press corps. they decided to make him the guy they all rally behind. he could not have been more wrong about the facts, but he's actually just doing what a lot of media have done. there been so many false statements set about this caravan, whether it's that it's largely comprised of women and children or that these are valid asylum-seekers or that there is no criminal element or that they will never make it to the border or that they will never scale the border or that they are no threat to s

we are back with molly hemingway. some of these democrats will run in some won't. headline by possibly considering the race. why is that? >> it is always an easy way to get headlines. this year it is easier than in previous years because there is disarray in the democratic party. we don't know if the moderates will beat the progressives. you are seeing internal battles being waged in different ways including trying to generate excitement about president to run. >> some relying before the midterms. i never would have heard about this, then considering it. new york times, sherrod brown says he's ruffled and unvarnished with sweatshirts. and boston globe, and beto iraq. >> the media putting the scale for different candidates rather than, sherrod brown is getting excited from out there. >> you see how much they favored barack obama over hillary clinton, they were very excited to cover donald trump. they want to cover things fairly down the middle, not the one particular candidate. >> what about longshots, marion williamson, and the hollywood communities visiting iowa.

piece today. >> i read the mollie hemingway piece.rage everyone to do so. jerry nadler gave an interview to the entire car of the nacelle at heading to d.c. let me tell you, laura, i've done this before talking a little bit too loud, so i know what jerry nadler is going through. this impeachment thing that nadler allegedly said, this will be a goal number one, think about this. you have upwards to 12-15 democrats who just won on the kind of hopy-changey stuff. how do you think that's going to go over when they have to go on the record on impeachment, for instance, steve russell's seat in oklahoma city that they just won that's like r+6. >> the polls are showing that people do not want the impeachment style. >> do you know who really get that? nancy pelosi gets that. you saw the answer that they are going be very careful and take it step-by-step. she knows if they overplayed their hand, they'll lose all these deeds. >> russia was not a midterm on the issue in the midterms. we saw the exit polls say that 54 of >> laura: immigration numb

mollie hemingway heard something on the train yesterday. mollie, you can add to the story.you hear from jerry annadler? nice to see you. >> i was up in new york, i saw you when you were up there doing election coverage, i tookew the train down happened to sit right next to jerry nadler, the powerful incoming chair of the judiciary committee. we are starting to hear people say we will do a lot of investigations, but when the midterm elections were happening, they said they weren't concerned about impeaching president trump are going after kavanaugh. during one of the various phone calls that nadler took while we were on the train, he said that in fact, one of the things the judiciary committee plans to do is in fact go after justice kavanaugh through one of a couple of different means. either by going after the fbi for relitigating all of that, they just got the promise of what it would be like to impeach justice kavanaugh, and they also say they are all-in on the p russia investigation. there is a broad correlatedgh effort across multiple committees to do the thing they tol

the challenger tonight, a film in your to viewers of the show, mollie hemingway. >> i'm not quite sure and the first one to buzz and gets to answer the question. critically, you must wait until i finish asking the question to answer it. each correct answer is worth one point and if you get it wrong we detract a point because we are cool. the best of five wins. >> i brought some stuff. >> tucker: i just want to say for the record and for the marketing department, i had no role in this at all. >> i just brought some stuff for christmas, and if there is a close call -- >> tucker: [laughs] question one. the great marvel comics illustrator and creator stanley passed away this week at 95 years old. he was the brain behind characters like iron man, the hulk, and someone called insect man. thankfully he reconsidered and change the name of that character to what? ed henry. >> spider-man. >> tucker: are you sure? to the tape we go. >> and i said, gee, what if a guy could stick to walls like an insect? that sounds good. so i started trying to think of some names. insect man, no. spider-man. sound

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howie: here to analyze the coverage, mollie hemingway. ferrechio, and adrienne elrod a democratic strategist to who worked for hillary clinton's campaign. howie: the president said he didn't know nawtd whitaker, and before he said he did know him but not well. mollie: it's not a secret in washington, the justice department has been planning for this transition. this is a typical thing for presidents to do right after an election. george w. bush did this with donald rumsfeld. howie: sometimes the press looks for hidden motives. but the president has been attacking his attorney general for a year. this is about the original decision of the a.g. to recuse himself from the mueller investigation. adrienne: jeff sessions did the right thing. he had to recuse himself. but the criticism of matthew whitaker is warranted. i think he'll have a hard time getting confirmed by the senate. howie: he doesn't have to be confirmed unless he's named as the permanent head of the justice department. doing this the day after the mid terms when the democrats wo

molly hemingway, senior editor for federalist says it is outrageous that accountability has become a partisan issue. >> here's the person, find me the crime, we look for crimes and determine what should be done. we have evidence of also to criminal things, criminal leaking of classified information against trump officials, lying to a court that are not worried about by people who think just keep digging we can finally get trump. so few people held accountable for lying to congress even in the russia story, christopher steele who built the entire russia dossier and almost a year ago, he lied to the fbi. and testimony, the guy hired by hillary clinton to set up the russia story, gave testimony at odds meaning one or both of them lied to congress, look at james clapper who line about spy on everyone, john brennan who lied to congress, hillary clinton who lied about how systems worked in her interview with the fbi, holding people accountable for lying is a good thing. heather: another key witness in the russia investigations is a common complaint against robert mueller could come down as

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>>howard: joining us to analyze the coverage is molly hemingway, senior editor of the federalist and a fox news contributor. - - former democratic state senator in ohio who teaches at american university. i understand the difficulty of shouting a question with marine one in the back room. didn't that symbolize the media's tendency to blame tribe and diverged their eyes from their own role in this? >> yes but the president was wrong to blame the media for this. we saw weeks of the media blaming the president. it would be nice if we could separate to conversations. what type of rhetoric are using? what type of conversations are we having? secondly, who's responsible for the violence they commit. we need to make people responsible for their own violence and there's room for improvement across multiple areas. how donald trump talks about and a lot of improvement on how the media covers topics. >>howard: i don't see much focus on the second half of them. most of it was trump blames the media which is true what half the story. he says, no, you and the press are spreading hate and anger and

molly hemingway points out so far the investigation failed to serve its original purpose revealing anyollusion between the trump campaign and russia. >> you have seen for a while the special counsel which was set up to investigate treasonous collusion with russia to steal an election hasn't gotten anything of that nature at all but found a couple russian trolls doing facebook means and wrapped up a ton of trump associates on process crimes, things hillary clinton and her people when they were caught up in similar things, like to the fbi, didn't even bother prosecuting them. when it comes to trump affiliates mueller has shown himself to be tenacious so i wouldn't be surprised if he had more things coming. the question is what happened to treasonous collusion with russia to steal an election? this is just a political prosecution to go after anybody who is friendly with trump that is not a healthy system we have. heather: it has been 548 days since the probe was launched and it cost american taxpayers as much as $17 million. a fox news alert. entire communities turned to ash as the death

the power panel, democratic strategists dave brown and molly hemingway and jason chaffetz.welcome to all of you. from 5:38.com, now that the dems control the house this could be a benefit to mueller, democrats don't need republican by into exercise their new pounds subpoena power with this option in their toolkit. they can demand oversight if it appears mueller's investigation is being stymied or important information being suppressed. >> a subpoena is only as good as its ability to be enforced. i was chairman of the oversight committee. i had subpoena authority and couldn't get document out of the trump administration. the same as it was with eric older and loretto lynch. don't know what democrats think they can suddenly get documents. the only way to enforce a subpoena is get the department of justice to enforce the subpoena. congress gave up this power. it is wrong and if they think they can get these documents they are in for a rude awakening. shannon: man heading up the doj, matt whitaker, is on camera. after talking with him, convinced there is no way he will fire mue

mollie hemingway still here, senior editor at federalist, fox news contributor. editorial page editor at "wall street journal." one thing you take away, james, republican talk immigration, democrats are talking health care, who will win the day? >> yeah i think republicans probably haven't done enough to talk about health care, to talk about the bernie sanders plan endorsed by many democrats, eliminates all private insurance, all government insurance but i think the big issue, i think the republicans do have a, immigration, the big issue is the economy. i think that gives republican as puncher's chance hanging on to the majority. brian: in the house. leading in senate. tesla, people point out the election was won on election day by the president. do you believe this last push works? >> last push probably works on republican side. what the sad part a bit i have a issue with long term democrats have been moderate. they never been as left as they claim they are now. even if they do win, what policieses will they implement especially with states with republican contr

gerald nadler, overheard by molly hemingway talking about impeaching justice kavanaugh.s is truly the lunatics have taken over the asylum it appears in the form of new democratic leadership in the house. >> you hit the nail on the head. a lot of sensible people would tell you quietly and off the record this is a really bad idea. not just sub stanttively but -- substantively but politically. the vigor of what they will go after him will only help the president as far as the 2020 re-election bid is concerned. so the problem is the, i think the base, particularly, the money that represents the bloodstream of the party at this point has moved way to the left. they want the investigations. whether they are a good idea or not. the base will be served. >> lou: quickly, the president says he and the senate will return in kind if the house insists on these vacuous evacuations. i say "vacuous" i'm being bipartisan. we have seen the fruit of house investigations and it has been pure bitterness and no substance whatsoever. i shouldn't say that. little substance whatsoever. your thou

molly hemingway, senior editor of the fella relist, they see the russia probe as a chance to get trumpout of office. >> temporary appointments like this we got to thomas jefferson. the idea donald trump is doing something different than other presidents is ludicrous but what is really happening is people had such hope this special counsel would be used to unseat a democratically elected president of the russia thing would go somewhere or obstruction and trump is not even removing anyone or stopping the probe at all. people are frustrated the big plan is not coming to fruition. rob: michael avenatti tweeting he will be exonerated after being arrested for domestic violence and claims there is video evidence in this case. this comes hours after court records obtained by the blast show actress minute he filed for a restraining order in los angeles. it is not clear if this is the woman involved in last week's domestic violence incident but we will keep following the story and let you know. the ivanka trump lawyer slamming a report she used a private email for government business. washington

chris stirewalt, mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist.kay, chris, traditionally recounts do not net that many changed votes, at least machine recount spent only about a couple of a couple hundred, 300 on average. >> in history. modern political history. there have only been to the races which the outcome of which was changed. two major races where the outcomes have been changed. we all remember the al franken recount in minnesota. then there was dino rossi in washington state in 2004. >> this bread? >> 300 votes or less. if we are at 12602 for scott, that ain't going to get recounted away. the elimination of the crazy rhetoric going down there about all the stuff of the recount that is highly highly unlikely to change any outcome. >> what about that? the president tweeting that the presidential election should ber ron desantis, many votes are forged, must go with election night -- >> well, he's wrong. sounds like he doesn't want any of his military ballots counted and this is veterans day. florida is doing what it's supposed to do. it's c

molly hemingway writes the headline florida vote scandal coverage shows democrat complicity, it is without question lawful processes were not followed. to say otherwise is scandalous and insulting to the intelligence of most people. everyone knows what is going on in to say there is no evidence when evidence is obvious to everyone equaling those pretending it is in there is offensive. what do you make of the reporting you have seen across the board and nationally as well? >> i just go by the officials, the florida department of law enforcement and division of elections, these are two is sensibly objective parties, the bosses are all republican, all the problems brenda snipes has had in doing her job the way she is supposed to be doing it there is 0 evidence of actual fraud or stealing votes or stuffing ballot boxes. there's a lot of reasons to be disgusted by this process but 0 evidence of fraud. >> is more about incompetence than willful misconduct? >> somebody who lives in broward county for a very long time, has been through the process, it is totally embarrassing to anybody who lives h

magnitude because jerrold nadler, the incoming head of the judiciary committee overheard by mollie hemingway talking about impeaching justice kavanaugh. i mean, this is truly the lunatics have taken over the asylum, it appears, in the form of new democratic leadership in the house. >> yeah, i think you hit the nail on the head there. there's a lot of sensible people who i think would tell you quietly and off the record that this is a really bad idea, not just substantively but politically because it can only, if the emptiness of these investigations and the vigor with which they'll go at them can only help the president as far as the 2020 re-election bid is concerned, so, you know, the problem is -- i think the base and particularly the money that represents the bloodstream of the party at this point has moved way to the left, and they want these investigations whether they're a good idea or not, and the base is going to be served. lou: very quickly, andy. the president says he and the senate will return in kind if the house insists upon these vacuous investigations, i'm saying bipartisan, w

tomorrow night we're back with one heck of a show, sean spicer with mollie hemingway, and dane smith, eyeballs, see you tomorrow, good-bye. . lou: our top story deadly wildfires continue to rage throughout california tonight. the death toll there has risen to 31 and more than 200 people are missing. hundreds of thousands have been evacuated and the two main buyers located in northern and southern california have already burned more than 200,000 acres state officials warning the weather will make these fires even more dangerous.

mollie hemingway to my right. senior editor at "the federalist" and fox news contributor.ert wolf ceo of 32 advisors and fox news contributor. and james freeman assistant editorial page. fox news contributor. works in the building. i will not pay for your subway. so, first off, mollie, with you. what's at stake for democrats if they don't come out with at least a chamber in this? >> yeah. if you just go by history, what democrats should expect to get tonight is 28 seats. which is more than enough to take control. brian: 23. >> that's the baseline that they should expect. >> they could have a much better night than that or actually not even achieve that and we won't know until tonight. but that's what everyone should kind of expect because that's the average if you look at all races that have been held in the first midterm after world war ii. an average of 28 seat losses. there is already such a narrow divide there that democrats shouldn't have to do that much to take the chamber. brian: the controversy around this brand new president from the travel ban to -- amazing he ha

dave brown, mollie hemingway, jason chaffetz. welcome to all of you. i want to read something from fivethirtyeight.com. now that the democrats will control the house. they say democrats don't need republican value to exercise their newfound subpoena power with this option in their toolkit they can demand oversight it appears mueller's investigation is being stymied or important information is being suppressed. jason. >> a subpoenas only as good as its ability to be enforced and believe me i was a chairman of the oversight committee. i had subpoena authority. i couldn't get documents out of the trump administration. it was exactly the same as it was with eric holder and loretta lynch. i don't know what the democrats think they can suddenly get documents. the only way to enforce a subpoena is to get the department of justice to enforce the subpoena. congress gave up this power a long time ago. it's wrong. if they think they can magically get these documents, they are in for a rude awakening. >> shannon: now the acting attorney general, matt whitaker, he'

rattling off all of the investigations he's going to undertake, according to molly hemingway. >> yeahat piece. i encourage everyone to do so. he gave an interview to the entire car headed back to d.c. >> and you know-- let me tell you. i've done this before talking a little too loud outside of the quiet car. i know what he is going through. this impeachment thing that nadler allegedly said would be goal number one. think about this. you have upwards of 12 to 15 democrats, whoo just won on the hope and changey stuff. and republican leading in swingy digit district howge will that o over when three to get on the record in impeachment in steve russell seat in oklahoma city that they just won an r plus six. good luck. i think they better dial that back. >> laura: the polls are showing. the polls are showing that people don't want the impeachment. >> no. you know who really gets that? even nancy pelosi understand that. she saw we will be very careful and take things step by step. she's knows they over play their hand. they will lose all of the seats. >> russia was notve the issue in the mi

anchor of the daily briefing, juan williams and cohost and molly hemingway, senior editor at the federalisto far away. >> would you like us to come closer to mike yes. then i heard you talking earlier about these races, a lot of them i really, really tight and it's basically just down to turn out. >> it's pretty exciting. two years ago we were here and that was honestly the most exciting election night that we've all extremes together. this is pretty exciting. there are a wide potential variety of outcomes that could happen tuesday night. neither party has really done the thing of under promising so they could overdeliver, everyone has overpromise. i think the biggest risk for the democrats as they have these really skyhigh expectations and if they fall short of hitting those, then there going to be a mad scramble with a lot of blaming. at midnight it's the starting for the election. there's gonna be all this jockeying. i don't know how much it will actually matter in the next two years, whatever happens in house of representatives if the republicans are maintain a majority in the senate th

"washington post" columnist marc thiessen, mar eliasson, and mollie hemingway. >> i think the presidente united states is learning from his mistakes. if he had done this with james comey after the 2016 election, there would be no molar probe today. the reality is the president of the united states is, to reshuffle his cabinet, to tell some people to leave another people to come. when i was in the white house in 2004, president bush waited until after the election for donald rumsfeld to replace him. >> bret: which he did the day after the midterms. >> this is a normal process. if he had waited to do this and this and all of a sudden some development came in the mueller probe or some controversy with the justice department and people started speculating -- we would be in conspiracy theories about obstruction of justice. the election has changed and he's moving on. >> bret: a lot of people are asking what has happened in the possibility of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who was at the white house today, should he then assume the top spot? i asked trey gowdy about that earlier in th

molly hemingway does not believe them and is senior editor of the "federalist" and she joins us tonightuardian" story i pulled out because of a great piece you wrote and metaphor for our coverage. it's transparently thin at best and repeated as if it was real. >> like all the other russia stories we have seen. there is a claim. this is a hard to disproveth claim. it doesn't say what is going on but the russia thing comes into play. >> tucker: russia! >> so everyone falls for it. as journalists we should have a higher standard. we should demand evidence and make sure it makes sense. the notion that julian assange could have a meeting with literally anyone and not be defected is hard to believe. >> tucker: three separate times over years.fe >> not once, not twice but three times. not just a heavily surveilled city. he is holed up in the ecuadorian embassy. they keep logs. the story explains it away saying that he failed to sign in. that is ludicrous. you should demand evidence before falling for a story. all of the stories are used to prove a cloud of suspicion. it's not russia meddled in

former white house press secretary ari fleischer and mollie hemingway, senior writer at the federalistt what it means for the president. >> as charles krauthammer used to say, it feels like a cover-up of something that was not a crime. what difference does it make if this project ended in january of 2017 or january of 2016 or june? what's the purpose and with the motive? and i can't see any motive here, why would he do it? there is no underlying crime, there's nothing wrong, it might be unsavory for up person running for the president to do business abroad but it's not a crime. >> if you want to number whether president trump thinks it's a serious issue, look at the response. he clearly thinks it's a serious story and i think there's a big difference between january and june because by june it was clear that donald trump was going to be the republican nominee for president. at that time his personal lawyers reaching out to a kremlin official on a private business deal and to help donald trump. that is a web that is being revealed by special counsel mueller, it's not over yet, this isn'

tom bevan, real clear politics cofounder and president britt mollie hemingway, senior correspondent athe federalist, and charles lane, writer for "the washington post." the doj seems confident, but there's a lot of talk about whether that's accurate. >> i've done my best with the layman to sort through these various arguments, and i guess the way it looks to me, there is a choice of legal authority here that the president had to. he could have gone by one statute and one norm that says you go with the deputy in this situation. another statute that the olc and office of legal councils rely on is you don't necessarily have to. you got this temporary option of seven months. people can argue about that endlessly but it seems pretty clear about the politics of it is that matt whitaker is a more synthetic position -- somebody he had a lot of quarrels with. that would've been the alternative position. that tipped the balance and that's why he chose matt whitaker. he is taking a risk that anything he's done anything from firing mueller or like that, anything that matt whitaker does could be ch

tomorrow night we're back with one heck of a show, sean spicer with mollie hemingway, and dane smith, and your heart, brain and eyeballs, see you tomorrow, good-bye. . lou: our top story deadly wildfires continue to rage throughout california tonight. the death toll there has risen to 31 and more than 200 people are missing. hundreds of thousands have been evacuated and the two main buyers located in northern and southern california have already burned more than 200,000 acres state officials warning the weather will make these fires even more dangerous. >> we still in the red flag of the weather. it's mentioned earlier expected up to 40-mile an hour winds. right now we have 10% containment and will be working all day and night to increase and reinforce that containment. lou: we will be following with the latest on that of the fires throughout tonight's broadcast. also tonight, partisan warfare over both counts, allegations of fraud and committal abuse of power in the efforts of election officials trying to either preserve or undercut electoral integrity depending upon whom you hear fr

. >> our colleague at fox mollie hemingway was on the train back to d.c. and next to her was jerrold nadler, having loud phone conversations what he plans to do looking backwards at russia and brett kavanaugh for new investigations. kennedy: wow, that turned around. >> there may be democrats looking to put forward a positive agenda but others looking to fight base warfare to please constituents. kennedy: i don't know, man, this whole thing, it's crazy because democrats are really struggling to find who they are. i was talking to a liberal friend of mean the other day, he said what does a libertarian democrat look like? i don't think there is such a thing. >> i'm not sure i know what that would look like. they're big government people controlling your pressure points. >> there's a lot of people in the democratic coalition for the -- among the very far left socialist, they have ocasio-cortez, other victories. kennedy: pay for it! how do you pay for medicare? you pay for it. that's what you do. everyone knows that, i'm a congressman now. >> exactly. 50,000 ac

. >> dan: i want to think mollie hemingway on interviewing jerry nadler on the amtrak.ident trump once again blasting cnn's jim acosta and now threatening to pull more press badges. we'll see that next on "the five." hi, i'm joan lunden with a place for mom, the nation's largest senior-living referral service. for the past five years, i've spoken with hundreds of families and visited senior-care communities around the country. and i've got to tell you, today's senior-living communities are better than ever. these days, there are amazing amenities, like movie theaters, exercise rooms and swimming pools, public cafes, bars, and bistros, even pet-care services. and nobody understands your options like the advisers at a place for mom. these are local, expert advisers that will partner with you to find the perfect place and determine the right level of care, whether that's just a helping hand or full-time memory care. best of all, it's a free service. there is never any cost to you. senior living has never been better, and there's never been an easier way to get great advice

josh crush hour, mollie hemingway, and charles lane. we haven't heard that much, a ton, about the economy on the trail. the jobs number is clearly a closing argument for some republicans. >> that's part of the problem from the white house, you don't hear the president talking that much about the economy as he is about immigration. in the red states, missouri, indiana, west virginia, immigration is a pretty potent issue. but when you look at the house map and you look at how many seats could end up flipping in suburban areas that are just a little uncomfortable with the anti-immigration or anti-illegal immigration rhetoric. there are a lot of strategists wondering why president trump is not talking about the good economic news and focusing on immigration. >> as they noted, people notice when the economy is bad. i think the main significance of the economy being so good and it has been good for a while now is it has temper that desire to throw the bums out or completely change the management of the country. a lot of it is directly tied to

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist," and charles lane. thoughts? roberts wanted to demonstrate that the supreme court is above politics, then getting into a political talk with the president is a funny way of showing it. at the reality, of course there is a big difference between obama judges and trump judges. why did they filibuster judge gore search? why did anthony kennedy wait until there was a republican president to resign? why did they try to destroy brett kavanaugh to keep them from taking the court, and why doesn't ruth bader ginsburg resigned and left trump to replace her? it's a preposterous idea that there is no difference between obama judges and trump judges. most voters voted in the selection specifically because they wanted to make sure there were trump judges and not obama judges. the chief justice should stick to running the supreme court and not get into fights with the president. >> bret: chuck, what about that? is this a fight he should not have gotten into? >> i think it was a fight he felt he had to get into and he has been t

mara liasson national political correspondent of "national public radio" and mollie hemingway seniore federalist." okay, jonathan, how concerned are they of the white house about the whitaker, this effort on a constitutional grounds legally and where he stands. >> i don't get the sense they are concerned at all. what they are concerned about is there is a body of opinion inside the white house that he is going to be very difficult, if not impossible to confirm. there are people that argue that but the president is very happy with matt whitaker, privately has been basically gushing about him. he has used the word courage to describe him. thinks he has been very strong and what trump likes is that he hasn't recused himself. he hasn't stepped down and that he is holding the line. so, trump is very, very happy with matt whicialght, whether that means he will end up being a permanent appointment i wouldn't go that far. i think it's much more likely he is not. but, trump is very happy. >> bret: mara? >> at least for now he is overseeing the mueller investigation. that means he can pass on

karl rove, mollie hemingway, jeff o'connell. plus two exclusives this evening. texas senator ted cruz defending his seat against rising star beto o'rourke for the democrats and vice president mike pence who just made news by doubling down on his prediction. >> i really believe that republicans will expand our majority in the senate and hold or majority on the house of representatives. >> martha: there you have it. first chief correspondent and henry on the breakdown as a plays out tonight. >> think about how much ground president trump made up in the midterms. a talk about blue wave, skepticism about the president putting himself front and center, but it's closing with prognosticator nate silver hedging on whether democrats will take back the house and the president talking comfortably about pickups in the senate. suggesting early on -- he's been on the field nonce nonstop. boasting about how he's had packed houses already today in ohio and indiana as he pushes to one final rally tonight in missouri. with bill and hillary clinton largely on the sidelines, democr