Good morning. Welcome, Nexios today. It's Thursday, November 10th. I'm Nyla Boudou.

On the show today, election denial in Pennsylvania. Plus, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on its

40th anniversary. But first, I've never been more optimistic about America's future than

today. Biden ceases the moment. That's today's one big thing.

President Joe Biden defied history with the midterm election results by avoiding a wave of

Republican victories and made his first public address about it yesterday afternoon.

It was a good day, I think, for democracy. And I think it was a good day for America.

Axios is Hans Nichols covers the Biden administration and is here now with how much this win

changes the matrix for President Biden. Hey, Hans. Morning. How much of this is a reboot for President

Biden? Sort of a retool. Maybe I'm splitting hairs there. But, you know, what you heard from the

president last night was sort of not a victory lap, but a victory sigh. And what the messaging

they're working on, and they've been planning for this for months now in the White House,

because they kind of always knew that they would lose the House. They didn't know it by what

extent, but they knew they'd lose it. And what you really heard from the president was the dual

message. And that is, look, I'm willing to work with Republicans. We need to do Ukraine funding

on the foreign policy space. But he went out of his way at several points to talk about mega,

mega Republicans and to talk about cuts to social security and how to use his veto pen.

He really wants to sharpen the distinction between him and the Congress that he's running against.

And that's the path to re-election. That's what so many senior officials think.

There was a point where he was asked during the news conference about the idea that America has

been under this fever and how much the election changed that. How did he answer that?

Well, he doesn't really have an answer. He has an aspiration. And his hope is this. He just keeps

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