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laura: christine todd whitman, whank you so much for joining us. msman: a pleasure. laura: we will return ve our midterm ge in a moment. first in other news, the united nations says 200 mass graves have been discovered in areas of iraq once controlled by so-called islamic state. they could contain the bodies of 12,000 people killed by the group. the u.n. says the sites need to be forensically examine, as they could provide evidence showing the scale of the crimes committed. an army search operation is underway in meroon to rescue zens of children kidnapped from a boarding school. at least 79 students between 10 and 14 have been seized on hwmonday in the not of the country. the government has blamed separatist militias for the kidnapping, but the group has denied any involvement. you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come on tonight's program, we will have more of our special midterm election covege with two political pros breaking down what is at stake. laura: the british cabinet has met over the state of negotiations with the eu regarding brit. prime m

challenge has so far failed to materialize let's get more on that i'm joined by professor richard whitman he is an associate fellow at the think tank chatham house and a professor of politics and international relations at the university of kent and joins us on the telephone welcome to you it appears as we just mentioned there that there has been a failure of the hard line breaks of tears to get the support that they need is may's leadership say for now where it's thirty three for today i think as you know this leadership contest is a kind of particularly one of the members of parliament most letters which remain on fire and when they reach a trigger point which is forty eight this is do you think the significance of the parties in that crews are very confident we don't know how many of those less is going to. she's relying though we know very much on the support of the northern irish to u.p.a. but they are angered in the meantime over the briggs that deal and they voted against the government last night how dangerous is that side of things from a. for the d.a.p. was sending a very clear

richard whitman professor of politics and international relations at the university of kent with your assessment of what might play out here when it comes to bricks that and domestic politics there in the u.k. thank you so much for your analysis. now to lebanon where refugee families who have escaped jihadists are being forced to hire out their children as day workers just to make ends meet some one hundred eighty thousand refugee children in lebanon are working long hours for little pay no place has a higher concentration of syrian refugees than in lebanon's bekaa valley didn't use i.e. abraham traveled to a un camp there and has been looking at one family's plight it is six in the morning and lebanon's bekaa valley eight year old son my just woke up a splash of cold water in the face and she is ready for work. her family fled syria to escape i asked her now they're in lebanon where they can't always afford breakfast so my issue is this tiny makeshift bed with three of her six siblings. she doesn't go to school there are no schools in the camp where would she go to school so my own m

. >> thank you, chairman whitman and ranking member courtney for the opportunity to appear before the house subcommittee on c-power and projection forces. on behalf of secretary wilson and chief of staff at the air force, general goldstein, i'd like to also commend you for the fy '19 mda efforts. if the congress and executive branch are able to continue on your current pace, we expect to have an fy '19 budget on time, first time in decades. that's not starting a year with a continuing resolution or worse a sequestered budget and that's a faifrl start for fq '19. well-done and thank you. as we review your draft legislation for the fy 19 ndaa we all recognize the sacrifices american families make to live and enjoy the freedoms in a safe and secure democracy. with committees like yours as our best supporters and guaranteers of that freedom we recognize the importance of hearings like today on c-130 modernization and safety. let's be the first to say we'd like to do more and go faster when it comes to the modernization of our c-130 fleet. we have reduced most of our fleets over the last d

, worked with marissa mayer and mark whitman for a very long time.s been your reaction as you have seen all of this unfold at google? first, bad behavior should never be rewarded. . emily: let alone tolerated. >> no, and so we need to continue to do a better and , to makeb, obviously sure we don't have this happen in our companies. i was so progressed to work with meg whitman at ebay, and she laid it perfectly clear to everybody, don't do her thing that you would not want your mother to hear you do or say, or show up on the cover of the new york times. google's problem has been that they did not have the women. there are a few, but they did ranksve women in the top for a very long time, and you saw executives getting away with bad behavior. >> i cannot comment because i haven't been at google, what people were doing to whom, but in general, we need to do a far doing to whom, but in general, we need to do a far better job, as you know, from the book you wrote, of treating people well, and not having these things go on and on companies. when they do go

thank you christine todd whitman. we miss your republican party, where is it?. >> thank you. gabe debenebetti, thank you. we're going to show you some scenes of the glory of stuff today. what a strange event. look at it, it's even physical, they're coming at each other. look at the assistant to the president pulling a mic out of the guy's hand. it got physical. you're watching "hardball." ♪ -[ slurping ] ♪ -act your age. get your own insurance. [ child babbling ] -aah! -oh! -act your age. get your own insurance. -act your age. ♪ let's fly, let's fly away ♪ ♪ just say the words ♪ and we'll beat the birds down to acapulco bay ♪ ♪ it's perfect for a flying honeymoon they say ♪ ♪ come fly with me ♪ let's fly, let's fly away ♪ ♪ come fly with me ♪ let's fly, let's fly away ♪ and i found out that i'ma from the big toe alian. of that sexy italian boot! so this holiday season it's ancestrydna per tutti! order your kit now at ancestry.com always a catch. like somehow you wind up getting less. but now that i book at hilton.com, and i get all these great perks. i got to s

virginia republican rob whitman chairs this hearing, it's about an hour. >> we call to order, the house armed services subcommittee on sea power and projection forces, today the subcommittee convenes to receive testimony on contributing factors to c-130 mishapps and other intratheater challenges. distinguished leaders testifying before us today are lieutenant jerry d. harris, deputy chief of staff of strategic plans and programs, department of the air force and lieutenant general donald kirkland. commander air force sustainment center and rear admiral scott conn, director, warfare, office of chief of navy department operations we deeply appreciate your time and viewpoints. recently there has been an alarming rise in noncombat aviation accidents from fiscal years 2013 to 2017, a man fighter, bomber, helicopter and cargo war plane accidents rose nearly 40%. resulting in a loss of life of over 130 service members and aviation mishaps. of these incidents, over 20% of fatalities occur in three accidents involving legacy, intratheater aircraft, c-130 hercules and c 28 ground aircraft operated

whitman, that the amount of guidance required depends on the scope of the delegated power. >> ok. if we are supposed to go through the 200,000 or 100,000 or whatever they are, what are the different categories where it's tough, not so tough, in your opinion? >> your honor, the question is not a matter of tough, >> you see what i mean. categories where congress can delegate with an s.e.c. type standard or the standard here, categories where congress has to be more specific. what in your opinion are the right categories? >> so the factors about sorna that are critical include the fact that it contemplates criminal sanctions. in 2b this court recognized its precedent supported requiring greater guidance for the promulgation of regulations that contemplate criminal -- >> but isn't that all over the place? we have confronted delegation challenges, the civil regulations whose violation will result in criminal sanctions, so i mean, there were numerous of those cases but i will just give you 3. these are all places where the delegation is to a civil regulation as it is here, but if you vi

whitman, that the amount of guidance required depends on the scope of the delegated power. justice breyer: ok. so if we're supposed to go through the 200,000 or 100,000 or whatever they are, what are the different categories where it's tough, not so tough, in your opinion? ms. baumgartel: your honor, the question is not a matter of tough versus -- justice breyer: no, you see what i mean, categories where congress can delegate with an sec-type standard or the standard here in categories where congress has to be more specific. ms. baumgartel: the -- justice breyer: what in your opinion are the right categories? ms. baumgartel: the -- so the factors about sorna that are critical include the fact that it contemplates criminal sanctions. in touby, this court recognized that its precedents supported requiring greater guidance for the promulgation of regulations that contemplate criminal sanctions. justice kagan: but are -- isn't that all over the place we have confronted delegation challenges to civil regulations whose violation will result in criminal sanctions? so, i mean, ther

justin martin is the author of four highly praised books rebel souls, walt whitman and america's first bahamians genius of place the life of frederick olmstead, the spoiler icon and a national bestseller greenspan the man behind money. his articles appeared in fortune, "newsweek" and the san francisco chronicle. we have copies available for purchase at the registers so please make sure you pick up a copy on the way out and thank you for coming out tonight. [applause] thank you for the nice introduction and it's great to be here tonight, nice to see everybody that came out on a rainy evening. i'm going to discuss my new book and i thought it made sense to start by getting everybody oriented. in western maryland right across the river from virginia, not west virginia but the confederate territory. nothing that happened before or after this particular day would be of similar consequence. they traveled across into maryland and mounted their first ever invasion of the north and they have many different ideas for things that might happen. they hoped to disrupt the northern midterm elections

s rejected rajapakse as government that returns the prime ministership to run a whitman a single who was sacked by the president last month. we want to use this member of the location to enhance democracy to promote freedom to focus on the economic and social rights of the people of our country the rajapaksa won't go his supporters say the president's decision can't be overturned like this but i mean is this mr that i just answered the only person who can appoint a prime minister in terms of all cars do shit is the president of the country nobody is the speaker khoury jayasuriya has previously called the president's decision to appoint rajapaksa a nonviolent coup d'etat and now has two prime ministers and two cabinets pollen box one the president boxes the other a which of those two institutions is the supremes power is at the heart of the constitutional crisis that's paralyzing sri lanka's politics burn its mic al-jazeera colombo. well italy has resubmitted its budget plan to the european commission but insists it's sticking to its deficit targets the government's made some tweaks t

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it is fitting that we are at walt whitman because this was the first school in 1993.e expanded our outreach to universities, inviting students along the bus. c-span representatives go into the classroom when we take the bus to cap us we take this to major book festivals and talk to booklovers about c-span2's booktv. we talked to them about american history tv. this bus will be in the early primary caucus states, the national conventions and debates to talk to audiences about what we do at c-span. as richard said, the core has remained the same. this bus has been on the road in the last 25 years community connecting and engaging with audiences about what we do and how the community can use our resources in the classroom and how it helps them stay abreast of what is happening in washington, d.c. the second is programming. the last one he years, we have -- weoing substantial took the bus and had elected officials at the state level talk about issues facing their state. the third, which is extremely important is our relationship and partnership with the cable industry. wh

virginia republican rob whitman chairs this hearing, it's about an hour. >> we call to order, the house armed services subcommittee on sea power and projection forces, today the subcommittee convenes to receive testimony on contributing factors to c-130

i also want to congratulation whitman for being selected for "a" school. that's the best, right? truly make us proud. big deal. going to that school is like wharton school of finance. everyone on today's video conference also, i want to thank you all for serving. we thank god for having you people be our heroes. your families are back here. they love you. they respect you. you're the lones who keep america safe and strong and free. you do a job like else. you are very much appreciated like you wouldn't believe by the citizens. i want to maybe start with the air force. i know that brigadier lyons is on the phone. tell me a little about what you're doing. >> we defend the airfield in kandahar and bagram. we support teammates, mission set and deliver combat air fire across afghanistan. i know you can't see us, but you've got 150 airmen in this room that would love to say happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving! >> that's great. really fantastic. how are things going over there? how's it looking to you? you've been there a while. you've seen ways going on, you know what's happening

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and henry whitman. thank you. rebecca, since it is your reporting, walk us through details that democrats may zero in on. >> so, the report that we issued last week, basically lays out the details of the president's knowledge of, or the fact that he was briefed on every step of michael cohen's arrangements or payments of women who alleged affairs with the president during the 2016 campaign. among those details are he met with david pecker who runs the publisher of "national enquirer" saying what can you do in 2017. and he allegedly paid off a former "playboy" model and thanked pecer for making that payment and referring to paying off stormy daniels, a former adult film star who the month before the election was threatening to go public with her allegations of an affair with the president. it lays out that the president was very involved in two campaign finance violations that michael cohen has now pleaded guilty to. >> henry, rebecca's initial report on the hush payments says mr. trump was involved in or briefed o

. >> reporter: whitman served under president george w. bush and mccarthy, a democrat, served under president obama. they both believe scientists' voices are needed, particularly now. >> what do you make of the fact that 400 scientists are running for office in the 2018 elections? >> i think, you know, there's clearly they see the same thing that we do. which is it's not ience der tack, but it' tth scientisttshe themselves. we need people in leadership positions in the public sector who can help make sure there's evidence and fact-based decisions being made. >> not everyone agrees. >> do you still think that climate change is a hoax? >> look, i think something is happening. something is changing. it will change back again. >> reporter: in a recent interview, president trump repeated his skepticism about climate change and questioned the motives of scientists in general. >> scientists also have a political agenda. >> the war on science didn't start with the trump , butt h gone from what felt like a war on science to an all out war on facts.

like mark cuban, someone like meg whitman, hardcharging commonness technology.got to be done. we've got to leave it there. nissan's chairman arrested after the japanese automaker says they found significant acts of misconduct with this personal accounting. to hillary von who has more on the story. hi, hillary. reporter: hi, david. carlos ghosn was basically worshiped as a superstar businessman. he was an icon in the u.s. and had a son, though. now the nissan chairman, carlos ghosn is costing shareholders a lot after years of stealing from the company in line to regulators about how much money he made. when he got arrested that was the breaking point and what was a longtime internal investigation at nissan that led human being being locked up sureties today. the chairman front of the company by using company assets or purse will use. he is also accused of misusing company about men's and also underreporting his valerie for several years by about $44 million in u.s. dollars. in a rare and public and very emotional hour and half talk with the press, nissan eeo trie

if you think about republican governors like christine todd whitman, who later became the epa administratore republican party has had a long tradition of environmental activism. what we now have is, you know, people who are saying two plus two is equal to six. i mean it is really denying basic science. and you wonder to yourself, do you take that approach with other stuff, you know? when you're ill, do you decide you're not going to trust the experts. you're going to go to your local witch doctor? no. you trust the experts. why on this issue do they get to pick and choose? and this is of course the fundamental issue facing the planet. >> yeah. >> and on that issue, they say, no, we don't trust -- you know, who knows about the science? it's like the next time you have to get an operation, i'd like to hear you dispute the views of the three surgeons who tell you you need to get an operation. >> or the next time you're touting the advances of nasa being able to send a rover to the moon -- i mean to mars, right? it's the science. >> and it's the same science by the way, you know? it's not like

joining me now is a former republican governor of new jersey, christine todd whitman.for coming in. >> good to see you. >> i checked your twitter feed and you said shame on you, republicans, if you don't move ahead in protecting bob mueller's investigation. mitch mcconnell says, though, this is a solution in search of a problem because mueller's investigation hasn't yet been impeded. does he have a point? >> he does have a point. except that when you hear all the rumblings and all of the threats about we want to get rid of it and we have the president threatening, you don't know what he's going to do. he says one thing one day and one thing the next day, there's a reason to be concerned. it just would be good practice for them to adopt legislation that does this not for the mueller investigation b any of these special counsels. they have got to be able to do their job. the american people want that. polls show that, they want this concluded and they want him to have the freedom to do it and do it right. that should be true of all special prosecutors. that's legislation

jamie whitman's.e was on that level. >> follow up to that, cindy hyde-smith made the comment about hangings. will mike espy pull off the white population. what do you think about the comments? >> i thought the excellents were very much out of line. i understand how in the heat of a campaign things can get said. i have certain things in my vocabulary that i try my hardest not to say but public hanging is not one of them. that's not anything i would have envisioned saying. >> are there going to be enough republicans like you to vote for mike espy? >> i've seen a lot of republicans who were die hard cindy smith people that over the last two weeks willing to talk about mike espy and can't believe that she made those comments. they are scared to death of what she's going to say down the road. >> peter, with six days left in this race with thanksgiving, squeezed in here in the middle, it's going to be people like cliff that we'll be talking here to see whether a democrat here in mississippi much like doug j

walt whitman called it the great american evil, the nation's intense, wideaesindigestion fueled in partwhat americans were eating for brefa -- potatoes cooked in congealed fat, heavily salted meats, grade schools and mush, slow cooked for hours over wood-burningov . enter the kellogg brothers. out of their medical complex, grand hotel and spa in battle creek, michigan came an invention, ready to eat, easil digestible, quick to prepare breakfast cereals. dr. john harvey kellogg baked the first batches of cereal with brother will, who trned the recipe into corn flakes and birthed a multi-million-dollar company. togeth the brothers transformed the american breakfast and helped foster many of the ideas now considered central toealth and wellness. but it all came at great personal colonels. their story is the foc of new book out in paperback, the kellogg's, the battling brothers battle creek, by dr. howard markel, a medical historiaerat the unty of michigan and regular columnist for the pps "newshour". dr. howard markel joins me now. the ellogg name in american society is hopelessly associat

he raises taxes, raises spending, lasts one term, gets beat by christie whitman. she cuts taxes, cuts spending, gets reelected. she gets to the end of her term, leaves for the bush administration, then who gets elected? jim mcgreevy. that was quite a time. corzine places him, -- replaces him, and he , debt, andd spending i win with 61% of the vote in a blue state. they get tired of us, though. you get two terms, then new jersey gets amnesia. now we have phil murphy from wayman sachs, bought his into the governorship just like jon corzine did, but he bought it at a bargain price. corzine spent $45 million to buy it in 2005. murphy only had to spend 45 million dollars in 2017, so he actually got her for a bargain, and he has raised six different taxes already in the first nine months he has been in office, so i got a feeling you will see another republican in 2021. the past is prologue. i think that is what will happen. >> hi, governor. to say i absolutely adore your candor. it is something that has just meant a lot to me. i work with the alliance for american manuf

joyce vance, ken dilanian, and christine todd whitman, the former republican governor of my home state in new jersey, and michael schmidt. he co-wrote today's article on manafort. joyce, i have to go to you first, information sharing. where is the line between the unusual arrangement of paul manafort's attorneys speaking to trump's attorney and a legal arrangement. >> the idea of information sharing is a way that co-defendants in an investigation, a group of people who are under investigation, can continue to share investigation -- or can continue to share information without losing the protection of the attorney/client privilege, which would shield the conversation typically between an attorney and his client, but here sharing the information among the group. that's something prosecutors don't necessarily like but it's been approved repeatedly. >> would we consider trump and manafort to be co-defendants? >> i think i used co-defendant loosely. maybe it's better to say people who are under investigation. and so in that sense we were told by giuliani that trump had joins defense agreeme

my graduation from walt whitman high school was down in constitution hall, more years ago than i will at mitt to you. i started learning about this parade during the 90th anniversary of suffrage in 2010. i set on the board of a homework cemetery on capitol hill, congressional cemetery, which i totally recommend as a place to bring your family for an interesting tour spot when you're sick of the natural history museum, and i say that as a loyal employee of the kmit se -- smithsonian. i looked around through the obituaries at the cemetery to see if there were enough people buried there to build a suffrage tour around them. the main thing i kept finding about this women was their march in 1913. ed the it had been incredibly important to them. there's that thing about nice girls are only in the newspaper at birth, marriage and death. maybe your debut. the women who were all elites considered this day in their obituaries because it was that important. after the 2016 election when women started planning another march to protest a man they hadn't voted for to they he ignored their voices the

tell you that i grew up with people liking to ridge, governor of pennsylvania, and christine todd whitmanernor rockefeller. all kinds of regular republicans. they were not crazy right tribalists. so here's the question to you. >> wait a minute, how about ronald reagan? wait a minute, how about ronald reagan? you knew him. >> i knew him. >> don't have to go -- >> i love those people you mentioned. >> let me ask you about you. last time around, i met you up in new hampshire and you called me off into a side room. i think it was off the record. you were very optimistic you could win the nomination up in new hampshire. i think you got good relations with the newspaper up there. where would you stop trump if you were to -- would it be new hampshire? where would any republican have a shot at saying, okay, this is not the real republican party of ronald reagan, even? you're not our guy. where's that going to i'm sayin. sometimes it's been lonely. that this is not the republican party that i knew and i joined. our party is pro-trade, pro-immigrant, believes that our connections and allies around

governor todd whitman, following that closely.oting is underway, looking at governor and health care is a big issue. healthcare keeps playing out again and again in race after race. the read from the former democratic presidential candidate, michael dukakis on why that is, after this. here we are, wherever "here" might be. election day. when you rise above the... the noise. the tweets. the talking heads. what you hear and what you see are two different things. you hear about how "we're a nation divided." yet, from where we sit, we see no such thing. we see half a million people - today alone - stitching together some supposedly very divided states. red states. blue states. and every shade of purple in between. we see people working across party lines. state lines. yes, even airlines. all looking for for that uncommon, common ground. a nice reminder: that if you really want to see what this country is made of. maybe it's best to go see it for yourself. ♪ come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away. ♪ - mwith the best ofodi, the pre

he was meeting with the likes of walter whitman, head of upi, ap, and he was considered to be a very prominent soviet representative. at the same time, he was running soviet intelligence in the united states, at a time when the soviet union had penetrated every aspect of american spyrnment running amazing operations, including some of them from this building. one of the people who he recruited into soviet espionage was a woman named judith coplin, who worked at the justice department as a liaison with the fbi, working on intelligence operations against the soviet union. so she was a very valuable agent. >> on that note, i could sit up here and talk about that all evening, but i'm sure there must be questions from the audience, microphone run the to you for the sake of c-span filming.who has got a question ? >> i will start it. a very interesting american journalist, tell us about his relationship to the soviets question mark >> so stoned -- soviets? waso stone, he really revered journalist during early in his career, he was a man of the left, maybe he was a communist, i do not know u

and of course he is played by ernest whitman in the film. it does not say anything about why he wasn't with us any longer. the film takes away from the combat contributions of the regiment and i think that that has been repeated by lots of scholars to pay too much attention to him. i am not denying he was highly influential, pathbreaking figure whene world of music, but we are talking about world war i, i think the focus has to be on the combat soldier. and we tried to make sure -- we mentioned him, discuss him, but our focus is on blacks as combatants. >> [indiscernible] he is credited with introducing live jazz to europe. that has been debated. question he was with one of the best if not the best military bands there. they were recorded by pathe records. the music spread after that. i have a problem, too, because the band had embraced the moniker appellation harlem hell fighters, when the men never called themselves that. they were the rattlers, based on the rattlesnake from the gadsden ." but"don't tread on me the american press and then

here.estion >> barbara whitman. -- my opinion, you may disagree. 2010, when the e tea party helped the republicans ain nominal, but not necessarily working majority in the house. fact,o you labor under the you control all three branches and you can't get anything done. fact, what we have had is nominalking majority, a majority, it wasn't working ajority republicans had too many fault lines, is the actualnt better off with loss of a working majority since never had a working majority? >> michael? know, he's -- you i think norm or someone was gets a bunching bag in the opposition party, at to -- not issue where he wants to go after him. he may get a situation where he get opponent that, you far to the left and get votes there he didn't get last time. you know, my answer basically is see.l >> yes, question in the front and one in the middle of this section. >> thank you all very much. i identify from the state of wisconsin. red republican area of the fox river valley, that gave up ccarthy, would have given you george wallaceand helped give you donald trump. it's heavily dependent on agric

. >> reporter: whitman served under george w. mckashlgthm mccarthy served under president obama. what do you make of the fact that 400 scientists are running for office in the 2018 election? >> i think, you know, there's clearly they see the same thing that we do, which is it's not just the science under attack, but it's the scientists themselves. and we need people in leadership positions in the public sector who can help make sure there's evidence and fact-based decisions being made. >> reporter: not everyone agrees about the do you still think that climate change is a hoax? >> look, i thinking some's happening, something's changing and it will change back again. >> reporter: in a verecent interview, president trump discussed his skepticism about climate change. >> the war on science didn't start with the trump administration. but it has gone to what felt like a war on science to an all-out war on facts. and that has acted as a catalyst. >> this woman is the president of a nonprofit political group. they received interests from

that have used and employ their own body as metaphor for the lay of the land, hard cream and walt whitman most famously put the. needless to say the vast metaphors depending on the person's experience. this is just such a book and it's very exciting to bring this award to tommy and the nature poem. i believe the poem itself has committed to enacting poetry that is very rare which is medicine as a healing art when tammy tommy i believe is only beginning to heal through his extraordinary gifts as a poet and scholar. he couldn't be with us today but he sends then you'll forgive me if i can introduce you adequately. >> it's nice to meet everyone. >> the award is for tommy. >> it's a pleasure to be here and accept the award for tommy. tommy is a dear friend of hers threatened several beautiful books. he sent me a few words to read. i'm sorry couldn't be there to accept the award in person. met the texas book festival in austin having to use bottled water to brush my teeth. i have been preparing the speeches in front of my mirror since i was seven. thank you to all my fellow winners, congratula

gresh etch whitman former prosecutor that is a flip fortr thcks. one of several films republican to demrat of -- flips republican to democrat state houses we've seen.his eveni where do we begin? david brooks, some good ws in this last hour, and i'm going to stop. i've got two more calls to share with all of you. i think these are house races, is that right? here in new york. this is new york 11. this is a pick up for the democrats max rose defeating mac donol n. you can t where that is. >> that's in long island. that was not expected but that was one of the districts tha was an obama district. obama had carried that and donald trump carried itn 2016. >> and democrats picking it up for republican. so david brooks, a mixed picture but you're starting to see a slow march by the democrats toward a jority in the house. >> early in the evening it looked a little grim for them but they're pickering up some wins like staten island is a big kwin. people lto bash on pollsters but if you took all the pollsters prediction you would have a house pick up of 20 s

justin martin is the author of four highly praised books rebel souls, walt whitman and america's first