obama winning virginia by six points. which stunned a whole lot of observers. and then just a year later, following, year bob mcdonald went on to become governor of virginia defeating his opponent by a whopping 17 points. that's a 23 point swinging points in just one year. and to put it mildly, this was seen as very bad news for democrats. just listen to how nbc opened its nightly news broadcast the day after the election. >> good evening, a year ago, we were talking about a sea change in american politics. tonight we are reporting a small change which could also be anonymous development for the year old obama administration. republicans were elected governor last night, two important states, but other than preferred both candidates to the democrats, were voters across the country last night trying to say something else? there is evidence of an angry electorate out there. >> that was not wrong. we remember what happened in the midterms in 2010, that night with brian williams referring to -- they were bob mcdonald and new

the first year barack obama was president in 2009, his party lost the governor's race in virginia and his party lost the governor's race in new jersey. and yes, in the first year donald trump was president in 2017, his party lost the governor's race in virginia and his party lost the governor's race in new jersey. the virginia and new jersey governors' races always happen a year after presidential politics and they always follow the same pattern. a lot of things in politics are subtle, nuanced, complicated. this is not one of those things. every year, after a new president is elected, his party loses the governorship in virginia and the governorship in new jersey. and this has been true all the way back through the 1980s. last night, it would appear that, like every other president in living memory, and admit it, a few of those presidents you even forgot about, it would appear of that night the same thing just happened to joe biden as happened to all the other presidents like clockwork, like it's written in stone. everybody freak out. the only one difference here for joe biden is that

after barack obama won the presidency in 2008, bob mcdonnell won in 2009. and what did the republicans do? they instantly elevated him to presidential status. he gave the response to the state of the union. he was going to be the he answer to you can't be obama by being a fire braething guy you have to seem mild mannered you have to carry yourself like a dentist. he was going to be their savior. and then bob mcdonnell was a terrible governor in virginia who ran on crazy policies that made no sense and that made virginia a scandal and got them boycotted nationwide. remember the mandatory vaginal ultrasound stuff? and he gets run out of office on a bizarre corruption scandal. i mean, how you comport yourself once in office is going to make the difference here. that's part of why one of the things we need to watch tonight is whether or not youngkin is going to have republican control in the state legislature. house of delegates, if that flips tonight and becomes republican controlled, he may ultimately be putting together something that looks like a governing

joe biden used to tell barack obama all of the time in 2009 and 2010. it is the difference between compared to the almighty and the alternative. so those were words from vice president biden and i think you'll make that turn. obviously there is a lot of government business that has to get done in the next four, six, eight weeks, once you get into the state of union particularly, you're going to see a sharper, more contrasting president biden. >> we'll be watching. robert, heidi, jake and ali, thank you so much. we're going to leave it there. any minute now, market sets to open after having their worst day since last october. what you need to know as wall street reacts to this new covid variant. their only friend? the open road. i have friends. [ chuckles ] well, he may have friends, but he rides alone. that's jeremy, right there! we're literally riding together. he gets touchy when you talk about his lack of friends. can you help me out here? no matter why you ride, progressive has you covered with protection starting at $79 a year. well, we're new frie

you remember this, joe wilson accused barack obama of lying and it was a massive scandal. that's just how much of a departure from the decorum in the house of representative it's we've had in the last ten years. it's stunning, quite frankly. i imagine that, i would even go, go as far to say as it will go beyond typical republicans, i think. i don't have a great sense but think it will go beyond the, you know, the liz cheney's and the -- >> right. >> see people, this behavior is disgusting and we shouldn't stand for it. >> so there's a lot of attention, as mark points out, the house leader kevin mccarthy hasn't said anything related to gosar. interesting, at least as far as i know, and i do know, both of us all the time, nothing even towards congressman upton, member of his own party getting death threats on his bipartisan vote on the infrastructure bill. does that surprise you? >> surprises me awe the leadership team, scalise and others on television saying they cannot understand how any republican can vote for this, and he says nothing about marjorie taylor greene who wen

he finished less than five points behind barack obama in this county. along comes donald trump, and all of a sudden republicans are losing this county by 25 points. so we see the exit poll here. it's hinting that, hey, it's possible youngkin made some inroads here on education. if he did, though, what we want to see is louden county is one of the places you're going to see it. is he eroding the biden over trump 25-point margin? i think everyone agrees it's going to come down from 25. the question is how much he was able to erode it? is it still in the mid-teens. the high teens for terry mcauliffe. that wouldn't be enough for glenn youngkin. is he knocks it down to ten points, 12 points, now he's getting it into range. is he getting it to single digits? that would be incredible news for the youngkin campaign. when we talk about this issue of education, it was aimed at places like louden county. its are going to be fairfax next door, down in the richmond area, chesterfield county, a lot of suburban areas, some of the swing areas, too, virginia beach we'll

at the same time, we often hear president biden talk about how barack obama chose him to be the front man on the recovery act years ago and how pivotal it was. he didn't choose the vice president do that for infrastructure. pete buttigieg is part of that. mitch landrieu has been brought in, others. he did give her volatile topics like immigration and voting rights, which right now don't have the votes to move in legislative ways. so those are all magnets for more criticism from the right. so she has a portfolio that makes her perhaps drag in more criticism, and she's trying to not outshine the president, and at the same time she is struggling with that noise. they say she's going to focus on working, she's going to focus on a good relationship with president biden. could he do more to help her? perhaps he could. >> david, you seemed to imply earlier when we were talking off camera, you think it's harder to be a candidate of color today running for office than ten years ago. >> absolutely, chuck, for the reasons we're talking about right now. look at the statements released from the wh

obama. i have to slide that in there. you need to have some levity. >> i have to ask you before you go, a, would you ever go back in government? and what do you think about the state of politics across the country? >> so, obviously, it's rough when you turn on the tv 5r7bd read articles and talk to your crazy uncle at thanksgiving. i know i will. i don't know first and foremost, i'm lucky fans are willing to let me into their homes again. people that watch our show. they're involved in their own communities. one of the things that i remain hope. about having worked in the white house is the opportunity that we have to really make a difference and i know that sound hokie. but the stuff that i worked on wasn't sexy enough to be on came i cable news. it wasn't vitriolic enough to be on twitter. the types of people i was meeting were people that cared about their communities. when they made their voices heard, they may have gotten 100% than they wanted. rediscovering that is something i am tryin

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then barack obama gets re-elected easily two years later. this is the ebb and flow of american politics. i'm not saying it's great. i'm just saying, this is the defining feature of our time, just like, you know, for large chunks of the 19th century we had really, really crappy presidents. >> there are a couple of things. steve really kind of points them up for us. the first is understanding that, you know, 2016 is -- and '20 are presidential cycles. in between, you have the local races. so you have this national phenomena, where everybody is focused on a big name for president. then it becomes very local, which is what these governors races really reflect. and what this race in virginia says, and i think that, you know, youngkin put it right when he says, "i want to change the trajectory of the commonwealth," and he is going to focus on the local issues to help do that. he's not springing in national issues. that's what mcauliffe tried to do. he tried to tie youngkin and trump together. he tried to create this national synergy of, you know,

barack obama. stacey abrams. the list goes on. i don't know that it's possible in contemporary politics even in a upper south mid atlantic state to put up with anything but increasingly nationalized state politics. to youngkin's credit, he has tried to taylor this to virginia, and a lot of this has a cultural bent. what's going on in the schools? this notion of critical race theory. that somehow the public schools are hot beds of transgender depravity. the situation in loudoun county just outside of d.c. which has been at full boil and has really captured the imagination, particularly of conservative media. >> mark, in the time we've got left, you frame this as looking a lot like 2014 where mark warner scraped by with a win by less than a point. if this is a lot like 2014 and mcauliffe narrowly wins this race, what should democrats take away? is there anything they can do to improve their chances going into the midterms? >> garrett, one they can say a win is a win. and actually, who is in control of governor's mansions and an atto

the most visceral backlash after democrats cleaned house in the 2008 elections, including barack obama winning virginia by six points which stunned a whole lot of observers, and then just a year later, following year, republican bob mcdonald went on to become governor of virginia, defeats his opponent by a whopping 17 points a 23 point swing in just one year. to put it mildly, this was seen as very bad news for democrats. look at how nbc news had its nightly news broadcast. >> we were talking about a sea change in american politics. tonight we're reporting a small change which could also be an ominous development for the year old obama administration. republicans were elected governor last night in two important states, but other than preferring both candidates to the democrats, were voters across the country last night trying to say something else? there is evidence of an angry electorate out there. >> that was not wrong. you remember what happened in the midterms in 2010. that night, what brian williams is referring to, two republican governors referenced were bob mcdonald in virgini

. >> why are you so convinced he's not going to run when it seems as if one could argue barack obama, humiliating him at that white house correspondents dinner in 2011 motivated him to run. i know you think humiliation is the reason he may not want to run and lose again, but we've seen him use that as a motivator before. >> yeah. so this should become a documentary, and it should be called "the greatest grift in u.s. history." donald trump has made it very clear that he is grifting off of the american people, these supporters, these individuals that are just sending money to him at record levels. so one of the biggest problems for donald trump is that he makes a statement, right, that i'm thinking about it, i'm thinking about it. that's only to keep the grift growing and to keep the grift going. it's really amazing that people don't see exactly what the guy is doing. i talk about his sociopathy. i talk about this on my podcast mea culpa ad nauseam. please understand, chuck, and this is really important for all of my viewers as well. one of the things that donald trump has done is grif

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tim still with his coat on around the iowa caucuses, as barack obama was on his way to become a historic president of the united states. i view it, and i think you do too, as the birthplace of "morning joe." java joes open nearly 30 years before it just closed. tim was the most important guy at nbc news at the time. he said, this is where i want to talk politics. i've been watching from a distance, and i like what you're doing. here i am. java joes, from there, every iowa caucus, every four years, for us, it kicked off an important year and was our bread and butter, talking about presidential politics and the election. so sad to hear this news from tim and amy, that java joes is closing. it really has been such a part of our lives for well over a decade. for people in des moines, much longer than that. >> you know, as you look at these images, it takes me back, mika. i remember calling phil and telling him, "hey, we need to go to iowa. we're a political show." he said, "people at nbc news aren't going to let you go out." i remember telling phil, "well, listen, we're going to be in iowa.

accusations, invented controveries like they did to barack obama's entire presidency. every secretary and relative and any person that has any association to the current administration will come under target. we've seen that anyone involved in trump world will not hesitate to abuse their power, use their office, use their leverage, use their authority to do whatever they want to trump's enemies to perceive things. they made enemy's list in the administration. they will advance, they will do everything they can to target and go after every single person they perceive to be a threat to them and really, what that means, a threat to them are people willing to stand up for democracy. people willing to defend democracy, defend checks and balances, respect our institutions, try to hold up the pillars that keep our society going. steve bannon has said all along that his intention is to act as a lennonest and tear down and destroy the structures of institutions in the establishment. he announced that in 2017. what we see happening with donald trump and the republican party and

barack obama cried after sandy hook. you had bill clinton first struggling with his weight during the campaign and the infidelity issues. i mean, showing vulnerability, i think, makes you a better candidate. i know when i was preparing one of the presidential candidates in the 2020 race for presidential debates, that was one of the big things i told them. get away from the notes, get away from the prepared comments -- talk. talk about your life experience, things that people can relate to. >> that is risky. susan, what do you think about that strategy? you know there's -- i can think of a few moments off the top of my head when politicians go offscript and you're like, whoa, no, stick so the script, please. >> please clap. >> please clap. i was going to say, there's definitely a double standard with how we treat men and women politicians in this country. there's no doubt about that. so, to michael's point, going offscript, smart or not smart? >> depends on the candidate. you can go offscript in a very scripted way, if yo

barack obama got elected. it felt like a historic moment because it was. i'm going to take a step back from politics. this feels different why and what do you see as the antidote? >> well, i think it feels different because it is not that people are stepping back out of a sense of relief, right. i think the people who are pulling back, the progressives who are -- look, they're still very engaged but i think plenty of people find this so poisonous that in order to preserve their own sanity they sort of have to take a step back, sort of, you know, total political involvement that was with the aim of getting trump out of office, that people threw themselves into for four years is not sustainable. so i think in order for people to get involved once again, there needs to be people in the party who say that, you know, if you fight for this democracy it can be saved. and in order to do that, you need to have some sort of path to voting reform legislation. you need to have some sort of path for democracy legislation. >> yeah, i think that's very well said. i'll be

look, barack obama lost -- he only got 37% of the white vote there. terry mcauliffe lost white voters there by i think 30 points last time around. so there is this sort of racial angst sort of underlying their estate. but big parts of northern virginia, you know, the counties around richmond as well as down there, these college-educated suburban voters who have been breaking more democrat have been sort of holding virginia up. but i will also sort of change the narrative here. republicans will not have a better chance in the next decade of winning virginia. historically, they're supposed to do well historically now. they're supposed to do really well historically now. all the measurements, all the histories says republicans do well now. if youngkin fails to win virginia, given the sort of different kind of campaign he's tried to run and has tried to walk that thin line, if he loses virginia right now i think is a devastating blow to republicans because they're not going to have a better chance in the next decade of winning this state than they do righ

this is a county back in 2012, mitt romney only lost to barack obama by about four points. fast forward, biden carries it by about 25 points. there has been massive movement. these are areas with racial diversity, asian americans and latino population as well. there is an abundance of white voters with college degrees especially in richmond, virginia. i think that's what powered biden winning by ten. >> steve kornacki allowing me to crash in on his sleep time. thank you for doing this and making time. >> i am happy to do this. we will see you tomorrow. >> we will lock at key races in the virginia governor's race, we have key races in a number of important u.s. cities. it is a more interesting off year election year than usual this year. now i am looking more forward to it than ever. >>> still ahead tonight, the supreme court heard oral arguments on a case it went way out of its way for. they have not moved this fast to hear a case since bush v gore. the arguments were live streamed, electric, at times infuriating. we have that story and expert help to figure it out, next. e

the tea party was out there hanging barack obama, president obama and having "n" word signs and just blatant racism calling him a monkey and evening else and next thing you knew, tea party people are all over congress. they're members of congress. they're part of the main stream of the republican party. the tea party movement was the old version. they're totally main stream. do you believe that at some point -- i mean, there are half a dozen that have been elected. the future of the party essentially is the insurgents, the insurrectionists. they will become the main leadership of the party at some point, right? >> that's certainly the direction we're seeing. there is no room for anyone that stands for anything that has told the truth or actual policy like what happened to the republicans this week that voted in favor of the -- >> death threats. >> look what happened to them. look at the death threats and look at their own members. their own members of the party elected officials releasing their personal information but they know it's going to lead to threats. they know it's going to

barack obama when he was president his last year, illegal crossings were at a 50-year low. just stop and think about that for a second. illegal crossings were at a 50-year low. and in the obama/biden administration, they skyrocketed under donald trump. they are continuing to skyrocket now. obviously joe biden needs to figure out exactly what worked when he and barack obama were in the white house before and duplicate that. >> there's that, but as they celebrate the bipartisan infrastructure bill today, i would also suggest that they look at the many different crises facing this administration and think about like a supply chain czar. there's a couple different things american consumers and this is what -- this is what's going to impact the way they vote. that are impacting them right now. they can celebrate a bipartisan infrastructure bill about what's coming. that's great. but what's happening right now? like, massive shortages in supply chain issues and that's going to stay with us for months and months. >> mika, the 60 minutes piece last night on the supply chain, crisis

hillary clinton's campaign when she started making progress against barack obama. snooer talking about cutting the gas pipelines. >> that election has worked for other presidents as well. >> i want to step back a little bit here and follow up on what clear was just talking about, about learning from last coos. >> we talked last week about the new york times editorial. their analysis of democrats lost in virginia and governor's race. the party. this morning the wall street journal william is giving his take. he writes in part, gubernatorial contest mainly teaching about race and it raised an ethnicity in public schools. >> three easy steps, showed how not to do with it. >> first, tell parents butt out. >> second, infuriates parents by telling them they are confused and there is no real world problem. and finally accused of republican candidates of blowing a whistle. the bottom line is time for democrats to get serious of the problem they created for themselves in decades long, drift towards progressivism that repels the voters. >> they node to build a national major

barack obama was a black man who didn't let them get away with it. reasons are talking about, hey, republicans are talking about protecting our kids against crt, they're against mask mandates and gunman dates and perfectly fine with school massacres. by the way, do you want to live in america where just yesterday at an airport in atlanta a gun went off and people thought it was a terrorist attack? all of my friends across the world, just like you, i'm sure, alicia, they ask why is america so obsessed with guns. what happens in this country on a weekly basis is not normal, it's abnormal. it is literally a sin and nobody understands why this country allows its children to be killed, why this country allows men and women to carry ar-15s, weapons of mass destruction calmly and openly to a rally where cops look at you, but if you have the right complexion, you can carry it. can you imagine if black and brown folks with guns did the same thing as kyle rittenhouse? i have an active imagination but all i see are chalk lines where people have been killed. if

barack obama and nancy pelosi also back then passed an awful lot of legislation that quite frankly save the country from disaster. and certainly from going off an economic cliff. and then we turn around and got dragged into those midterms as well. democrats have to do a much better job of connecting their legislation to the real world and realize, to the aspirations and concerns of americans. they've been good at passing legislation. democrats have historically not been very good at selling that legislation, not good at the politics of that legislation. although i will say, lawrence, and i will say that biden has taken a lot of hits, as have democrats, about this -- but even if they had passed build back better and the infrastructure bill, i don't know that it would have made that much of a difference, quite frankly, in those results you just saw. in virginia. and history says that it may not have made that much of a difference, because the base of the party just is not energized. as well as the base of the republican parties. >> it seems that infrastructure is especially challenging fo

obama once said everybody who speaks after michael eric dyson pales in comparison, and that is why i am speaking before michael eric dyson, his new book is titled "entertaining race," professor dyson, thank you very much for joining us tonight. let's begin with your title, please explain the title. >> well, thank you for your graciousness, and your wonderful spirit of openness. entertaining in three ways, first of all, black people from the very beginning of our so journ in america have had to entertain the dominant white culture from the slave ship to the plantation to the stage of performance. number two, we have had to entertain the idea of race, constantly we are negotiating between and betwist segments of our society that mandate that we address rather explicitly or implicitly the race, and we have to be entertaining while talking about race, how do we think about race in ways that are those old phrases that seem to be ruthlessly cliched for some people. we have to find new and inventive ways to try to speak new realities to old truths. >> the range in this book is really amazin

you know, barack obama and nancy pelosi also back then passed an awful lot of legislation that, quite frankly, saved this country from disaster, certainly from going off the economic cliff, and then we turn around and got drubbed in the midterms as well. i think democrats have to do a much better job of connecting their legislation to the real world and real lives and aspirations and concerns of americans. they've been very good at passing legislation. democrats historically have not been very good at selling that legislation. they've not been very good at the politics of the legislation, although i will say, lawrence, and i know biden has taken a lots of hits about this and democrats took a lot of hits about this, but even if they passed the build back better and the infrastructure bill, i don't think it would have made much difference in the election results you just saw in virginia, and history says that. it probably wouldn't make that much difference because the base of the party just isn't energized as well as the base of the republican party is. >> it seems infrastructure is esp

. >>> joining us now is david fluff, former campaign manager to president obama barack obama. we are at an interesting stage at the infrastructure bill that has become law. i am finding it much easier to describe it now that it has passed and become law, and we actually have practical applications of it out there. >> no question. the language president biden used today about the types of trucks that went over that bridge and why it was important, the more real it is, the more granular, the more i think until there is shovels in the ground, it will matter to people. and so it was great to see american flags and bridges and really vivid descriptions of who would benefit. this is important for the country, most importantly, but also politically. the most important thing for democrats next year in their battle to save democracy and hold on to control in congress will be president biden's approval ratings growing. if people feel better with the economy and this infrastructure bill will be a big piece of that as will the build back better plan bill as well, you know, that and gettin

. >> barack obama was a tough campaigner and bill clinton was a tough campaigning. mario cuomo, he goes after reporters, that's a stupid question. i mean there had been -- bobby kennedy, a tough, tough liberal. where do those tough liberals gone? >> it's a great question, joe, one of the things that disturbs me is only the lincoln project, former republicans plus one best selling author, don winslow, who were throwing up these web ads seeing which ones went viral. they were tough ads. they should be posting hundreds and dozens at least of very tough negative ads online, see which ones go viral and soo which one of the attack messages work and they can let the market decide if it gets 20 million down loads. they know that's a pretty good tough message. they're not doing that because they're thinking of communications in yesterday's terms. if we get child care, let's go to child care center, have the president go there and do a photo-op. that's yesterday. they need to rethink this and jen psaki is terrific and they have other smart people in the white house. they need

an architect of those winning strategies is david plouffe, barack obama's 2008 campaign manager, a former senior adviser in the white house, and someone who all democrats turn to for insight and counsel. so interesting to have you on the big night. >> election night 2021. >> 2021. >> there we go. >> let's start with that comparison. obama and mcauliffe were under water, as you experts like to say. but managed to win. could terry mcauliffe pull that off tonight or is it different? >> no, he could. i think the question here is, this is a -- 2013 was a tough environment for terry, too. but you know, we just can't compare this election night to a year ago. okay. i think a lot of americans, including virginia, thought we would be largely done with the pandemic. delta reared its head. the economy is growing, but not as quickly as we would like. gas prices, which i will tell you, when gas prices are this high before an election, voters are really cranky. other cost of living matters. terry is a repeat candidate. that doesn't work as well these days as it used to. a bunch of things that make the

barack obama was elected twice. while barack obama was in office, democrats lost, i believe, 1,000 legislative seats nationwide. the consequences of that for the party have been devastating. so if you're sitting out there and you want to get engaged, you want to make a difference, don't just look to congress. this is whether you're a republican or democrat, whoever you are. look to the state legislatures. by the way, the state legislatures, this is so important, we're talking about the big lie. we're talking about january 6th. do you know why that festered? because we were still counting wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, and georgia weeks later. now, leading up to the election, we said on this show time and again, and others said, those legislatures, in order to stop any questions about the legitimacy of the election, should do what the state of florida does. yes, ron desantis, governor of the state of florida, and past governors have done, and that is count all of the early votes before the polls close on election

you and she align momentarily around barack obama. she then finds there is funding going to support reproductive health. that then becomes a divisive point for her. >> like for her, abortion is the thing she cares about most because that is the thing the catholic church cares about most. and she is very catholic, right? so the people who agree with her on abortion she will trust on other things because that to her is sort of the mark of a moral compass. there is little i -- people give me all these ideas. here is how you can persuade her. sending her copies of articles of the "new york times." >> she believes you are a member of the deep state. >> right. there is nothing i can do. a self-fulfilling prophesy in that way. so i just sort of have to reckon with the fact that we kind of occupy two different realities >> i think there is a tendency to imagine when you talk about qanon believers, when you talk about trump supporters, that it is all white people and it's not. your mom scrambles that. >> i wrote an essay about my mom's qanon s

it is same america that elected barack obama twice, you have donald trump right after that. how do we process all of this? >> yes, this is a question i all-important get from students, i try to remind them that i think we are part of a very long story. and so this story of bright spots followed by darkness, or bright spots together with darkness, are part of our long history, in addition to the things he talked about in politics we can think about slavery in reconstruction. so these things tend to go together, but i think it's important for us to do use those bright spots, to take them and find joy in them as we continue the work. it's important that we don't get bogged down and start to celebrate the price phosphine they happen, because it's necessary to hold on to that kind of thing, when we need to continue to work and we do those work from residents ration and the turnout, when we're fighting against redistricting we were just hurting about. and battle in against covid, we can do those things with a smile on our faces we remember the good times. >> i just want to end on

president barack obama appointed jerome powell to the federal reserve board of governors in 2011, and in 2017, donald trump appointed jerome powell to be the chair of the federal reserve. president biden announced that he will renominate jerome powell to serve a second four-year term as chair of the federal reserve. >> some will no doubt question why i'm renominating joy when he was choice of a republican predecessor. why am i not picking a democrat? why am i not picking fresh blood or taking the fed in a different direction? put directly, at this moment both of both enormous potential and enormous uncertainty for our economy, we need stability and independence at the federal reserve. >> at least three democratic senators, including elizabeth warren have announce they'd will vote against the powell nomination, but that is unlikely to change the outcome in the senate since a majority of democrats and almost every republican senator voted to confirm powell four years ago when the senate vote was 84-13. today jerome powell became president biden's field general in the fight against infla

last time the leaders met together was june 2016 during president barack obama's last year in white house. while relations, some new problems, new challenges have emerged from a.p. reporting, canada's justin trudeau arrived in washington with concerns about buy american provisions in the president's proposed $1.85 trillion social services plan. mexico's priorities heading into the summit were to obtain concrete advances on immigration, a more equitable access to covid-19 vaccines. we're back with ashley parker and rick stengel. just set the stage for the trilateral meeting which is happening, i think, in a few minutes. >> sure. so, you know, president biden, just to go back a little bit, when he took office, one of the things he was determined to do was repair relationships with allies around the globe and kind of declare america is back. and he was met with some understandable skepticism, in part from leaders who had seen the past four years under former president trump and as his administration went on by some of his own actions such as unilaterally withdrawing from afghanistan. so, you

barack obama wins and that's the end of the world as republicans know it. there is no way, two years later the tea party. . >> that happens. >> it's the way it works and it goes back and forth. look at wikipedia, people. >> exactly. >> back and forth. >> especially this century, we have seen a wave of 2006 and '14 and we saw a wave in '18. this thing is going back and forth with huge swings. every time this happens, people think they are dead and buried in decades. >> i know we got elected in '94. we talked about the permanent realliancement. i remember u.s. news with buzzards circling around. >> we are going to find the next big thing out there some where. >> parties always find a way and so it's interesting. but willie, anyway, now we blink and the democrats who lost virginia and a lot of other races in virginia almost lost in new jersey, we are not getting anything done and pass the historic infrastructure pill that spike the fact that people in the house are allowing their heads to blow off their should ers. it's a bipartisan bill. last night or this mo

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we will win, though, with the barack obama script that barack obama strategy of addition rather than subtraction, which leads me to my second point which is that after losses with the democratic party does too often is says well, we have to choose between base mobilization and persuasion. any party that forces themselves to choose between the two is guaranteed to lose. we have got to center our message and our strategies around that, which is bold and unifying and we have got to take our messaging as well as most importantly, our policies to the majority of the american people, not just our base. >> debbie, so messaging is important. i think max rose's point is well taken about simplicity in terminology that republicans use versus terminology that democrats use and that can be fixed but underlying that, what about message? because this conversation between base and a broader audience is one that is active within the democratic party now. what should it represent itself as being in the next election in order to prevail? >> i don't think that there is any doubt, ali, that we the democr

i think that barack obama was both confident and different than other politicians, but, boy, you better be popping out and cocky and excited and selling what you did because people want to know where their money is going. it's interesting if you do the obama comparison that michelle makes because we pulled video in front of the same bridge when they were appealing for more infrastructure spending all the way back then. take a look. >> behind us stands the ben spence bridge that it's in such poor condition it's labeled functionally obsolete. >> and replacing the bridge in cincinnati, you like that, critical to the region. >> this will be the first time i have come up here in a quarter of a century where i thought maybe there was a way forward on the brent spence bridge. >> i've got to tell you, gene, that's a lot of people who know about this bridge but never funded it revitalization. it's striking to see biden winning on it and of all people, mitch mcconnell, who was for it after he was against it, coming around saying maybe we're going to fix this thing with biden money. >> right, beca

president barack obama's first off-year election. republican bob mcdonald won the gubernatorial race in virginia by more than 17 percentage points. and chris christie became a national celebrity by winning in new jersey, despite that, democrats passed the affordable care act in 2010 and president obama was re-elected in 2012. based on that history, should we be careful to draw any major conclusions from just a handful of races? >> rev, if i were the democrats, i wouldn't talk about it anymore. there was a huge vote that passed for americans, especially in certain districts where those democrats need a win, they got one on infrastructure. who cares about virginia and new jersey anymore? that's yesterday's news. i really think that it's important -- yes, you want to do a recap of what happened and perhaps where things went right, where they went wrong, but move forward. this infrastructure bill is all about not just bridges and tunnels, but you got clean water, you got the electricity grid. you just spoke to a congressman from texas. t

one stay-at-home dad and part-time lyft driver in arizona became convinced that barack obama and george soros had packed ballots boxes with fake ballots. he left messages saying that the secretary of state would hang from a tree. and georgia, saw for rudy giuliani, he left a voice mail for the fulton county director telling him he better rung or he would be hung and face firing squads. a 42-year-old night staffer, worked at a youth treatment center in utah, he said his anger boiled over after he watched an election conspiracy theory event hosted by the my pillow guy mike lindell. he messaged an election official saying i know where you sleep. be afraid. you will die. this is by a real person who is findable, traceable, reuters called them. reuters spoke to nine of these folks, believing they believe they didn't do anything wrong, saying election officials deserve these threats. most of the people reuters spoke to, part of the reason they're so cocky and not running from this, there are no consequences for it. most have never heard from police. even though law enforcement alerted officia

trying to change that trend is valerie jarrett, the ceo of the barack obama foundation and board care of civic nation and part of the made to save coalition, working to make vaccination more acceptable in communities of color. valerie, thank you for what you're doing. >> thank you. good afternoon. >> you've got 28 million american children eligible to be vaccinated and you're trying to make sure children of color in particular get that shot. what are the challenges you're facing? >> absolutely. well, first of all, nothing is more important from the parent's perspective than the health of our children. we want do everything we can to keep them safe. there's been a lot of misinformation before. so part of our goal is to reach out across a broad network of organizations across our country, meet people where they are, give parents the information that they need that will convince them that it is safe for their child to get vaccinated, encourage them to talk to their pediatrician and health care providers and build this network of support that moves the needle forward, with no pun intended

president barack obama, appointed general powell, to the federal reserve in 20 2011. and in 2017, donald trump appointed him to be the chair of the federal reserve. president biden announced that he will anomaly him to serve a second for your term as chair as the federal reserve. >> someone no doubt questioned why i'm renominating jay. when he was a choice of a republican president. i'm not picking a democrat. why i'm not picking fresh blood? or taking a fed in the different direction. directly, at this moment both of the enormous potential an enormous uncertainty for a comedy. we need stability, and independents at the federal reserve. >> if these three democratic senators, including elizabeth warren, announced they will vote against the paul nomination. but that is unlikely to change the outcome in the senate and the majority of democrats, and almost every republican senator voted to come from paul four years ago. when the senate vote was 84, to 13. today he became president biden's fuel general in the fight between inflation. >> we know that high inflation takes a

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you have seen occasions where the president, bill clinton in 1993, barack obama in 2009, donald trump in 2017. you had first years there that got rocky. the poll numbers for the president started to drop and extirnl factors and the other party ended up winning in virginia. it is a continue wags of that trend if youngkin wins here. >> chris, you and steve will have long nights and early voting numbers are strong so far why what are you hearing on the ground? >> reporter: yeah. both campaigns are i think pleasantly surprised by the early voting numbers. huge numbers in on saturday and ellie voting tends to favor the democrats. both campaigns see this as a sign of interest and there often isn't interest in an off year election. both candidates have been out in force all weekend and again today. for mcauliffe trying to tie youngkin to trump. youngkin said he will not go to a trump rally and it is the culture wars for youngkin working, talking about critical race theory. take a look at the enthusiasm gap. extremely enthusiastic republicans is 49% of the elect rat. 32% of democrats say they

this is a county that has constantly voted for a democratic presidential candidate since barack obama but at the same time keeps elected a republican congressman. for all these reasons, we'll dive into the issues that matter here in washoe county. >> very hard for democrats to win a race without carrying washoe. finally shaquille brewster in duval county, florida. shaq, the endangered species, the swing county. tell us about duval. >> good morning, chuck. duval county, essentially jacksonville, florida, is a sprawling suburban area that is as purple as purple gets. it wasn't always that way. this is a traditionally republican stronghold that democrats flipped in 2018 and president biden won in 2020. now it's the source of a major battle between both political parties. republicans are trying to reverse the trend they've been seeing, pointing to issues like immigration, inflation, and the labor shortage, hoping moderate voters will end upcoming home, and democrats are pointing to congress and pleading with them to pass president biden's agenda saying inaction could threaten the trends t

this is a county that just in 2012, less than ten years ago, mitt romney only lost it to barack obama by about four points. fast forward to 2020, donald trump versus joe biden, biden carries it by 25 points. so there is been massive movement in the populations that particularly in northern virginia, these are areas that there is a lot of racial diversity, large asian american population, large latino population. but it also is that demographic we talk so much about, there is an abundance of that white voters with college degrees especially in northern virginia, and then those richer suburbs. i think that's really what's power that ship to divide -- with >> nbc news national political correspondent, steve kornacki, letting me interrupt his cram slash leap time. i think you're gonna be on the air for at least 24 hours, steve i apologize for doing this and i thank you for making time. >> always happy to talk to elections, i'll see you tomorrow. >> all right, see you tomorrow. again, we are going to be having full election tomorrow night, looking at those key races in the new jersey gover