Hello again, I'm Warren Aldi. Democrats have won control of the Congress. Republicans have

increased their lead in the Senate. More women are holding elected office than ever before.

This, after midterm elections that cost between $5 and $6 billion. For the moment, both parties are talking bipartisanship.

But how likely is that in a political era shaped by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich?

What he did was kind of make permanent this dysfunction in Washington,

poison our political culture, and kind of bring things to the

point where there's almost no way to imagine Republicans and Democrats coming together

with common cause in any kind of sustained way.

Later on this podcast, we'll talk further with McKay Coppins of the Atlantic about how

Newt Gingrich broke politics to use his term. But first, here are the president and Democratic

House Speaker to be Nancy Pelosi on the day after the midterm election. We'll have accountability

and we will strive for bipartisanship. With fairness on all sides, we will have accountability and we will strive for bipartisanship.

With fairness on all sides, we will have a responsibility to find our common ground where we can,

stand our ground where we can't, but we must try.

I would like to see bipartisanship. I'd like to see unity.

And I think we have a very good chance of, and maybe not on everything,

but I think we have a very good chance of seeing that. Okay, both sides talking bipartisanship. Evan Halper,

is National Politics Reporter for the Los Angeles Times. It's always good to have you on our podcast.

It's good to be here. Before we get into the issues of what might happen next, what were the major events of this week

other than divided control of the Congress? Well, it was really interesting to watch this election,

because as we know, the Democrats picked up a lot of governor's offices, but they didn't pick up some of the key ones.

They did not win in Florida. They did not win in Florida.

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