Hi everybody, welcome to the day after the midterms.

I'm so happy to see you.

I actually waited to have coffee this morning until we could have coffee together because

it was just time to have coffee with friends and talk a little bit about what we've seen

over the last 24 hours or so.

So I'm really excited to have this opportunity just to chat.

I had sort of prepared

earlier a bunch of graphs that I wanted to show you some images. I always like to bring those

in maps to our conversation. But, you know, as I neared the time that we were going to talk,

I thought a lot is still in flux. And it's really the bigger picture that I want to focus on

for these

midterm elections.

We've talked so much about this over the last year, and you finally get to the moment,

and then the day passes, and there's still some answers to be discovered.

And it sort of feels like these highs and lows, right?

Pardon me, I have, look at what I have on my desk.

I mean, could I have anything?

Does anyone get to the end of the day? How many mugs could you possibly collect? Does that

sort of indicate what sort of day you've had? How many mugs you have at your desk? You might notice

I'm a little under the weather, so you have the part of my voice and any sort of coughing

that will take place. I just, I think it's very appropriate that we just sort of limp to the finish lines, the mid-term elections at smarter news. So listen, before we get into some of these, I have three points for you that I think are important that I'd like to hear some of your questions, answer some of them as I can. But I want to start sort of with the big picture. One of the things

that you've heard me talk about is the language that we use on the news. And a phrase that you've

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