molly reynolds. just want to make a comment. the republican party always talking about what the democrats are not doing. what have they told you they are going to do in the case of being in power? the last four years they were in power, i cannot understand anything they have done to benefit ordinary people. investigate is the only thing they talk about. investigate, investigate, investigate. host: sergio in florida, republican line. good morning. caller: good morning, how are you, sir? host: i good, thank you. caller: molly, how are you? guest: i am good, thank you. caller: my question is, i know the republicans won by a small majority. how are they going to work with president biden particularly on his issues to progress a better america? how can they get things done? now, i am worried that republicans are -- in division. now that mitch mcconnell is running it, they are going to have problems more on getting things done. what can president biden do to get things done? host: how will the white house

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by molly reynolds, senior fellow

molly reynolds, a senior and government studies.t the end, a senior fellow and government studies. to kick off the conversation, i will let you wrestle for who gets to go first. every midterm affect is historic in some way and sets in motion historic changes that will happen in congress and relationships between the president and congress. as officials continue to tabulate the votes, can you reflect on the historic nature of the results that we have so far, and the broader trends that happened on tuesday? >> ok, i will start. i think there's two things that are important about this. as john pointed out, the historic six votes on the supreme court. this was one of the more remarkable things i had ever seen, the enormous votes happen, 50% of the population, 52% is outraged. it affects people deeply. for those of us who are grandmothers, it affects our daughters and granddaughters. we don't forget about this. and yet, within two weeks, everybody said the issue did not matter. it was the darndest thing. it went from being an overwhelmin

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by molly reynolds, senior fellow at the brookings institution to talk about the divided government we now have in washington. no surprise that the republicans are now to 218. following on what we heard the congresswoman say, what are the challenges for a republican-led house to move forward with their agenda? guest: i think the real question is, what are the things over the next two years that the republicans in the house one to do versus what are the things the republicans need to do? we think about the basic blocking and tackling of american government. we think about keeping the government open, a lot of discussion about raising the debt limit and those big, fiscal issues. those are things that need to get done. if they do not get done, there are big consequences for the country. there is a set of things republicans would like to do, some issues that are the kinds of ones the congresswoman was talking about. i think republicans will have big challenges on some of those things they would like to see done, since democrats still control the summit -- the senate and there is a democrat