Nov 4, 2026 · 37 min · 12 segments
Democrats won control of both the House and the Senate in Tuesday’s US midterms. They secured their largest House majority in nearly 20 years and flipped Senate seats in states that hadn’t voted their…
James GreenGuest
So for the last two years, we've had a Republican majority in both the House and the Senate, which refused to do anything critical of the Trump administration.

And only were their ability to peel off two or three Republican senators were they able to pass in the House and in the Senate, and also by getting support from a few Republicans in the Senate and the House to be able to pass, excuse me, these resolutions which were limiting the War Powers Act.

The Congress doesn't have a lot of power except over the PERS, the ability to withhold funding for projects as a way of doing that and investigating.

And so it's going to be more political pressure on Trump, questioning his policies.

There's a real clear pledge within the Democratic Party now to end the war in Iran as soon as possible, pressuring Trump to end the war.

I think Trump is in a real bind on this now because the estimates was that he was going to carry out some bombings of Iran after the election, the midterm elections.

I don't know if he's going to do that now because it's going to make him look so bad if he manages to do that.

And there is a split going on between J.D. Vance, vice president, and Trump about explaining why they lost the elections.

Trump acknowledges that the war is not popular, but he feels he needs to do it anyway.

So there's more pressure now for there to be an end to the war to bring down the prices of petroleum and diesel.

And I think that's what Trump is going to try to do in some way, shape or other.


But I think there will be the possibility of opening hearings about the situation in Brazil, perhaps in the second half of next year, once they've really attacked all the major questions and issues around corruption of the Trump family, the Epstein files, and the war in Iran, and also the treating of ICE on citizens and undocumented workers living in the United States?

So for the last two years, we've had a Republican majority in both the House and the Senate, which refused to do anything critical of the Trump administration.

And only were their ability to peel off two or three Republican senators were they able to pass in the House and in the Senate, and also by getting support from a few Republicans in the Senate and the House to be able to pass, excuse me, these resolutions which were limiting the War Powers Act.

The Congress doesn't have a lot of power except over the PERS, the ability to withhold funding for projects as a way of doing that and investigating.

And so it's going to be more political pressure on Trump, questioning his policies.

There's a real clear pledge within the Democratic Party now to end the war in Iran as soon as possible, pressuring Trump to end the war.

I think Trump is in a real bind on this now because the estimates was that he was going to carry out some bombings of Iran after the election, the midterm elections.

I don't know if he's going to do that now because it's going to make him look so bad if he manages to do that.

And there is a split going on between J.D. Vance, vice president, and Trump about explaining why they lost the elections.

Trump acknowledges that the war is not popular, but he feels he needs to do it anyway.

So there's more pressure now for there to be an end to the war to bring down the prices of petroleum and diesel.

And I think that's what Trump is going to try to do in some way, shape or other.


But I think there will be the possibility of opening hearings about the situation in Brazil, perhaps in the second half of next year, once they've really attacked all the major questions and issues around corruption of the Trump family, the Epstein files, and the war in Iran, and also the treating of ICE on citizens and undocumented workers living in the United States?
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