paul kane, i want to start with you because you and i have been running around the halls. i'm not exactly sure how to characterize it. we've spent a lot of time on marble floors in the capitol over the past 20 days. from kind of a history making 30,000-foot perspective, what do you think happened over the course of this week that's going to matter most in the long term? and is the damage that's been done to the institution of the senate irreparable? >> i think the biggest long-term shift is on the court itself. this is a seat that for 47 years beforehand had been held by louis powell who was himself a cent rift swing vote and then bjork got defeated and that led to kennedy replacing powell who spent 30 years as a cent rift centrist vote. he has the possibility shifting the court to the right for years to come. in terms of the senate, lindsey graham summed it up best. if this isn't bottom, god help us. i think we're going to find out. >> cheerful. steve kornacki, let me go to you on this question that we sort of were talking about at the end of that script there. this idea

i'm paul kane, senior congressional correspondent for the "washington post." pleased to be here with my colleague seung min kim. we have candice owens the communications director for turning point usa, a nonprofit group for prepolicies and limited government and no introduction, amy walter, the national editor of "cook political report." >> amy, let's get started. i want to know, i will put you in the hot seat, just try to explain the lay of the land of what has been going on. it really seemed like six weeks ago, we all just sort of thought, the democratic wave is building, they're going to win a huge amount of house seats, and you know, stay even or maybe pick up a site seat or two in the senate. it feels like something just burst that wave, maybe it is a smaller wave, maybe it is a tornado, choose your metaphor people, give us the lay of the land. >> you know, paul, i think the best way to think about where we are today is that we're having elections in two different americas. there's an america where trump is really popular. and a lot of those states are st

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