Midterm Election Special with the NBC News Political Unit

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🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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It's after 2AM Eastern, but Chuck, Mark Murray, Carrie Dann and Ben Kamisar are still going strong with the first takeaways from the 2018 Midterms.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.4	Meet the press.
0:04.3	Meet the press.
0:06.1	Welcome to 1947.
0:10.6	The Meet the Press Podcast.
0:11.8	It is 2.19 a.m. on Wednesday, November 7th, and we just wrapped up six hours of coverage
0:17.7	of the midterm elections.
0:18.7	And before we all go home and get a few seconds of sleep, I'm here with the political unit
0:23.8	to try and understand what we learn from the voters today.
0:26.6	So join me, Mark Murray.
0:28.0	Mary Dan and Ben Kamasar.
0:30.5	All right.
0:31.5	Mark, first impressions, split decision, what does that mean?
0:37.8	Yeah.
0:38.8	So one good night for House Democrats.
0:40.4	They took back.
0:41.4	They did what they needed to be able to do.
0:43.4	What it actually means is that now of a sudden you are going to have that check and
0:47.1	balance on the President of the United States, which did not exist in the House of Representatives.
0:51.0	There's also a good night for Republicans on the Senate, where they're going to expand
0:56.4	that majority, think of the judicial nominations that might come with that.
1:00.8	And then on the governor's side, Democrats got some pretty good pickups, but they also
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