From New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow. This is the daily.

Today, the story of how a small group of Senate Democrats broke from their colleagues

struck a deal with Republicans to end the government

shutdown, and touched off the latest civil war inside their party.

I spoke with my colleagues, congressional reporter Katie Edmondson, and national political

correspondent Shane Goldmacher.

It's Tuesday, November 11th.

Katie, welcome back.

Thank you, Michael.

I just want to explain that we're talking to you on Monday afternoon,

after a head-spending few days of news that could keep changing after we talk to you.

And the reason the past few days have been head spinning is that from

the outside, it looked like Democrats were riding really high after last Tuesday's election,

which seemed to ratify their strategy of keeping the federal government shut down as a way of

forcing Republicans and President Trump to reckon with these sky-high health care costs.

In fact, it seemed to be working so well that in the aftermath of that election, Trump declared that the shutdown was being blamed on Republicans and was helping Democrats.

He articulated that idea.

And then Democrats toss this entire seemingly winning strategy out of the

window. I didn't see that coming. Well, I think it gave a lot of people a real sense of whiplash,

Michael, because as you said, I remember standing outside of Democrats' closed-door meeting on

Wednesday, and they came out sounding

thrilled by what voters had just done in New Jersey, New York, Virginia, which is to show overwhelmingly

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