Record turnout of voters for a midterm election as Republicans maintain control of the Senate and Democrats take over in the House of Representatives. Top issues on voter's minds were healthcare, immigration, the economy, and the Trump effect, people voting in opposition and support of the President. Stef Kight, reporter for Axios joins us for how the dynamic changes between the White House and Congress. Next, Operation Faithful Patriot is under way and US troops have arrived at the border to support Border Patrol and DHS. So far they are laying razor wire on fences at bridges and erecting wire fences along the river edge in Texas. Alicia Caldwell, immigration reporter for the WSJ, joins us to talk about what troops are doing at the border and how much estimates say it might cost for the full deployment. Finally, Harvard researchers caused a stir when they said the first interstellar object observed in our solar system called Oumuamua, could possibly be an alien spacecraft. Oumuamua is such a curious object because it is not easily classified as an asteroid or comet, but it also picked up speed once it entered our solar system. Andrew Freedman, science editor at Axios, joins us for more on this and why it is almost certainly not an alien probe.

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