good talk to ross many thanks to you for being with us. russ feingold, them in taipei. so the democrats have kept control of the senate, but it's still a toss up in the house of representatives with republicans, a leading with 211 seats. that's just 7 short of the 218 needed for majority. democrats, however, are expecting more winds in western states like california. as counting continues, adolfo franko is a republican party strategist. he says, the results reveal the deep political divisions in the united states. now is the time for an autopsy, which we will conduct. first of all, the country is extremely divided. i don't think the republicans were routed all of these quite all of these races. you know, just nevada was called today a razor thin margins. what is clear is this. we're almost back to status quo. the republicans take the house, a little advantage for republicans, but we're back to the status quo, which means the country has divided really 5050. now why democrats outperformed and they did have to recognize that is largely, i think, for 2 reasons. first, abor

senate and was the republican nominee in 2004, losing to russ feingold.e hasn't lost since then. -- ran it since then. he has kept a low, public political profile until relatively late this year he jumped into the republican race. he got the endorsement of donald trump. he won a hotly contested republican primary in august and is running neck and neck with the incumbent democratic governor. host: what is his message to voters? guest: the themes we are seeing in wisconsin are similar to what we are seeing across the country. tim michael's is talking about crime, the economy, inflation, and were specifically to governor ebert, he is hitting him on school performance in the state. governor eve's was the former state education secretary. he spent his career in public education. tim michael's has been talking a lot about that, he has been talking about the governor's reaction to covid in 2020, saying the governor was not quick enough in reopening businesses and did not do enough to get the state back open. governor evers says he was following science and saved

we certainly hope to hear more from you as fight progresses. russ feingold, asia, political risk analysis. thank you very much for breaking down those election was fascinating to get your thoughts over to africa. now where molly's government has bond, french funded, and jos admitted deepening route with paris. their transitional government has decided to ban effective immediately. all activities carried out by n g o operating and molly with funding, material or technical support from france, including in the humanitarian field. the inter and pm said that the move was in response to the halt of french shade, the african nation earlier french presidents, a manuel by crone ended his country's years longer barking antiterrorist operation in the style. but the consequence of recent experiences. earlier we spoke to a conflict resolution specialist who gave his take on the current engines. today, relations between the 2 countries are extremely tense, almost at the point of no return when there are such loud attacks in the media. the purpose of both the french and the molly and authorities, all t

great, think russ feingold to political risk analyst on former asia chair, republicans abroad, explains what these results could mean for donald trump. and the republican party, we know that the former president, trump is enormously popular with what people like to call the base. and the fact is there were trumping doors, candidates who were elected. so trump is probably going to be the one who takes the blame for republican disappoint and today. and if anything, he'll say that i help put some people across the line. and we know that president trump is very good at messaging. so assuming the republicans do have the majority in the house, there could be a challenger and the challenges would have very good reasons to challenge mccarthy in say, we didn't have the resoundingly victory. we didn't pick up the several dozen or 3040 seats or some of the more optimistic talk that occurred in recent months. and they might have a basis to challenge him. or he might withdraw very unlikely that he would. first he's got to get elected speaker and then correct, he's gonna have to manage the expectatio

senate and was the republican nominee in 2004, losing to russ feingold.t since then. he has kept a low, public political profile until relatively late this year he jumped into the republican race. he got the endorsement of donald trump. he won a hotly contested republican primary in august and is running neck and neck with the incumbent democratic governor. host: what is his message to voters? guest: the themes we are seeing in wisconsin are similar to what we are seeing across the country. tim michael's is talking about crime, the economy, inflation, and were specifically to governor ebert, he is hitting him on school performance in the state. governor eve's was the former state education secretary. he spent his career in public education. tim michael's has been talking a lot about that, he has been talking about the governor's reaction to covid in 2020, saying the governor was not quick enough in reopening businesses and did not do enough to get the state back open. governor evers says he was following science and saved lives. those are the themes. demo