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

obama. he's tried to make this a national campaign for whatever reason, i don't specifically know why. and you have pretty much stuck to local issues, state issues that impact everyday lives. i got to imagine that that's probably what has resulted in the surge. how do you explain these poll numbers that have now shifted in the last number of weeks dramatically in your favor? >> well, we've been focusing on the issues most important to virginians, low taxes, schools that deliver for our children, safe communities, a growing job market versus a stalled out one and oh, by the way, a government that will work for us and not tell us what to do all the time. and virginians have embraced this platform. it's been amazing, across the country we've been hearing from families inning stand up for us too, virginia, because we don't get to vote this year, we have the same problems that you have. these kitchen table issues, this is what america is focused on right now. our website is blowing up. people com

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

obama was divisive and set strong feelings for and against him. when he rested all obamacare, which allowed for publicans have a problem with a lot of other people felt they impacted them in a good way for gave them something. joe biden has not done that so far. the things he's passing and working on, even this small victory they had this week passing more infrastructure, fees aren't impacting the things that are concerning americans right now. supply chain crisis whether it inflation or rising gas prices or problems of the water off massive problems of the poor, these are trending badly under biden administration is not addressing things that are going to make it better for americans so i think they are going to punish them. kennedy: vice president, you have to look out for yourself especially if you're thinking about the little, your own political future but you also have to look out for the president you served and this administration. obviously the vice president is doing bad right now, force the president and poll numbers can always go up so

obama did at martha's vineyard, same thing nancy pelosi did in northern california. they are very big on rules for the little people and they view the american people as their subjects like king george and they don't apply the rules to themselves and when it comes to-- i think a lot of people across this country are really having buyers remorse and are shocked because this is not what joe biden campaigned on. he said he was a reasonable centrist moderate. i got to admit that joe biden, swarming into the senate nine years ago, the joe biden that that a lot of us have known for a long time, we don't know where he is. we wonder if he's tied up in the basement of the white house because the people setting the agenda here are radicals and i think the american people-- the reason we saw such great election results in virginia and new jersey are that the american people both blue states, but the american people said hold on a second. this is crazy and i'm here to predict right now 2022 is going to be a wave election. it's going to be like 2010, republicans will retake the h

obama but here we are in november of 2021, thanksgiving and we have joe biden. joe biden is showing president obama up big time. he is even more out of touch. he is even more unsuccessful. >> julie: as americans get together for thanksgiving the left want to push their woke agenda. i hate that word but so common these days. check out the headlines. usa today. what is thanksgiving to indigenous people, a day of mourning? tribune with this. pilgrims brought racist genocide and gave nothing. guidance on decolonizing thanksgiving. the "wall street journal" claiming the left wants to cancel -- why did liberals have to rain on every parade, what is wrong with liberals? >> i would disagree with you on that. i think it's creating negative thoughts about the liberals. >> julie: you think it's positive when we've been celebrating thanksgiving all these year. i don't remember politization of thanksgiving when i was growing up. this is something the new hyper woke if you will are inventing. >> well, i would disagree with you on that. i don't see anyone speaking out from the

obama who i read in the report today got about 1,000 people in richmond over the weekend. one thing hasn't been covered enough terry mcauliffe really represents ralph northam's party. the governor he is succeeding. you don't hear much about him. there is a bit of a ralph northam hangover last vestiges of bill and hillary clinton. he was bill's best friend hillary clinton's finance director. he represents the past. youngkin represents the future. mcauliffe is very mess mystic every time he is out in the trail attacking parents and others. and also i think youngkin has been very optimistic. it's a message of hope and the future. >> rachel: funny you bring up hillary. i get a lot of hillary vibes when i listen to terry mcauliffe. he sounds very entitled, very annoyed he is getting asked all these questions is that part of it, that's part of why is he drops in the polls. >> have a way supporting people who they think they like them. there is a bit of dripping of scaramucci. sarcasm. he wasn't always like that. he wasn't to call virginians deplorable and irredeemable to coin tw

we have examples of barack obama , the cambridge police act. brian: joey reed. >> they got it wrong inferring you son, baltimore, with uva, with duke lacrosse, every single time we got it right but richard jewel taught me never to rush to judgment, that i believe in the presumption of innocence, due process, these things that they, the sad part of this is this. they create a perception in the community. there's going to be a certain result. they do this without any evidence ever presented and then when it doesn't come out that way people feel like the system is rigged. ainsley: you saw on msnbc they just showed prosecutions closing arguments and not the defense so you only got one side of the story. steve: that's nuts. >> of course. does that really shock you any more? it's sad. steve: they are trying to shape the narrative. they want to only present one side, or you know, and the judge said that all these legal analysts came out and said why isn't anyone ruled on this mistrial motion yet and he said i just got it, it's too early. once upon a t

well, barack obama wants you to think so. >> parts of the world are becoming more dangerous to live in, triggering new migration patterns worsening conflict around the globe. it's one of the reasons why the u.s. pentagon and other u.s. agencies are saying that climate change poses a national security threat for the u.s. and for everyone else. >> laura: if the parents of virginia couldn't save the mccullough campaign but now we are saying that obama is determined to save the planet? it's all hot air and mirrors. we are going to provide you our own anger mangled translation service. it obama is trying to stay relevant and i'm sure add to his mega netflix fortune by writing this whole wave, but to really cash in his friend has to get the federal government to keep the gravy train going. >> i am convinced that president biden's build back better bill will be historic and a huge plus for u.s. action on climate change. both of us have been constrained in large part by the fact that one of our two major parties has decided not only to sit on the sidelines, but express active hostility towards

you remember in 2009 when barack obama came out with his then-roughly $800 billion stimulus bill, smaller than this -- smaller than both of these bills and republicans even many elements of that bill were very popular. republicans ran against it saying this was big government run amok, too much spending too fast, and every single republican in the house voted against it in 2009. they ran that, and the opposition health care into a big victory into the midterm elections in 2010. that's what they're trying to do here. >> it's inflation now with that panel, how do democrats handle that? >> that's why republicans feel that they can go against this bill even though the elements of the bill are popular. they will point to inflation which everybody senses and everybody feels. it affects every household, and they will say, inflation is because of what joe biden and the democrats have done. now the economics of that may not be accurate at all, but they will push that argument and they will push it relentlessly. between now and next november. >> you see the white house trying to address that, right

obama won reelection in 2012 was basically saying, to working class voters, you know, i know you don't love cultural liberalism, but the republicans are going to cut your medicare and i'm going to protect it. but so if trump, in the trump era republicans took those issues off the table, basically said, you know, yeah, we're sort of nationally committed to medicare reform and we'll put something in the budget that supposedly will change the system over 20 years, but basically we're not going to make those cuts, not going to do the paul ryan agenda anymore. and at the same time, trump also made a lot of promises, some of which he kept, some of which he didn't, on trade and infrastructure where he sort of pitched himself directly to working class voters who felt like they had been left behind by the agenda of both political parties under globalization. so in both of those ways, he moved the republican party a little closer to a lot of working class voters on economics. and that still happens now, like if you look under the hood of glenn youngkin's campaign in virginia, he campaigned on mo

during barack obama's presidency, for example, the country actually went from demographically speaking being a majority white christian country. it was 54% white and christian in 2008. to being one that is no longer a majority white christian country. it's 44% white and christian today. and i think that reality setting in has led to a kind of identity crisis among many conservative white christians where absent legal methods to kind of roll back the clock there's a kind of desperation, a very anti-democratic reach for other means that when democratic processes have failed. >> there's something i read about, i call it the last gasp of white supremacy and what you're talking about, and i believe that to be so. the desperation as you call it. let's put up robert's book again. robert p. jones, i appreciate that. his book, i want to make sure we get it in there. it's called "white too long: a legacy of white supremacy and america christianity." thank you, sir. >> thank you very much. >> president biden apologizing on the world stage for something the former president did. just the soothing

jesse: this is the state that voted for barack obama twice. youngkin won 55% of the hispanic vote, 60% of the white vote. he doubled donald trump's numbers with females. americans are sick and tired of the left calling them racist, calling their kids racist, calling the country racist. martin luther king would have opposed critical race theory. >> i have a dream that fly four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the contents of their character. jesse: the left turned mlk upside down. he want sad color blind society and the left wants to see clear. the lieutenant governor-elect in virginia, winsome sears. >> there are some who want to guide us and we must not let that happen. they would like to us believe we are back in 1963. we can live where we want. we can eat where we want. we own the water fountains here. i'm living proof. jesse: the american people are rejecting the race card and democrats are scrambling. they can't play the trump card, they can't play russia russia

. >> yeah, i mean, one of the challenges of being president, whether you are donald trump or barack obama or joe biden is you are actually seen as the leader of the country. if things go well you get the advantage, if things go badly you get the punishment, people are looking out, you know, kamala harris, to her credit, why back when she was visiting vietnam, had this cryptic comment where she said, you know, you better be ordering your christmas gifts early because she had been briefed on the logistics supply chain problem. the problem they have got is they didn't do anything about it buttigieg who could be responsible took two months off for parental lead by the time you cabinet manage almost unimaginable. he hasn't solved anything. the secretary of energy asked about what she was going to do about gasoline prices broke up laughing as if she were kamala harris. people look as the this total lack of ability to get anything done and they blame the president. that's just how life works in a free society. you elect them. they either deliver or you decide not to re-elect them. steve: sure. u

bush, a friend of barack obama and bill clinton. how do you do that? the connection part. i met him during the gulf war. i traveled with him, secretary cheney and general powell, building support for the gulf war around the region. rev we refuel, and not a long conversation, don't want to overstate it. but we're talking about race. i said i went to school in boston. he said public schools? i said yes. that gave me credibility. he asked about military service in the family. my dad was in the army but at the end of korea, but in germany. i had an uncle who did hard combat in korea, and he winced when i explained. he asked what unit. he took the time, a minute, two-minute conversation, but took time to ask about you. to the point you made earlier, i remember traveling with him, and then a trip after the horrible southeast asia tsunami. when you went to man, to egypt, saudi arabia, the officials in the government and the troops in the field would light up. this black man was at the pinnacle of american power, the four stars on the uniform when he was general, the secretary of

obama and hillary clinton. >> when barack obama and hillary clinton are not gini ginning up concern about future elections and saying if something isn't solved about a past election that people are not going to vote. we're not telling people not to vote. >> look, democrats are saying that the election laws in this country are unfair. how does that not -- how is that different? they're saying that oh, what florida and texas and georgia are doing are unfair. if you look at what republicans are doing, the goal is 100% participation and zero percent fraud. that's not what chuck schumer is saying on the floor. i watch it and have to propose on the stuff, a federal takeover of election laws. get rid of i.d., get rid of, allow balance lot harvesting and same-day registration. that creates fraud in the next election. that's what democrats are doing. >> that's a different thing, senator. they are questioning laws that will restrict the access to vote for many people. they are not questioning the integrity of elections. they are questioning vote access. donald trump is saying that elections -

we all put out the stops when the vice president, the president to barack obama, and i think glenn youngkin hit on a number of virginia voters when he very delicately navigated the waters with donald trump and really focused and said, i don't need to bring anybody in. that was clearly a message that resonated with some of the swing voters that dan and i have been talking about, and i think he actually effectively use that message to counter some of the big democrats coming in as a way to answer the question of whether donald trump should campaign with them out on the campaign trail across the commonwealth. so that will obviously take some deeper digging, as we think through messaging and republicans have to have some soul-searching. where they go as a party, despite the victory as it was clear victory for glenn youngkin in the commonwealth. he did it without donald trump for the most part. obviously he called in last minute and try to do some tweets and stuff like that through statements from his office, but he was not on the campaign trail and glenn was able to pull this out, that's an int

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

jimmy carter and barack obama. not ronald reagan. and not donald trump. after abraham accords. every elite press criticized reagan. but he knew his principles. you know, reagan didn't have one-party rule. the speaker, tip o'neal, would spend time with him. would talk about the challenges. and when they talked about the challenges, they invested, not for more illegals coming across the border. but to compete against mr. speaker, inside my concerns room i have another portrait. it's a big one. eight feet by 16. it's a portrait of washington crossing the delaware. you all know that painting, do you not? this is a replica. you know who painted that painting? it happened christmas, 1776. the person who painted it wasn't there that day. he painted it in 1850, 1851. he wasn't even an american. he was a german immigrant who lived in america. emanuel. he lived here about 10 years i believe. then he went back to germany. he knew the same thing that lincoln knew about america. that america is more than a country. an idea not of more bureaucracy but more freedom. his talent was art he thou

obama, and yes, prime time to cable news anchors. this would be the grifter class. they do little but benefit greatly. as a practical matter, they are useless and have no skills. most of the time, they are a drain on the actual economy and poise into the culture. the rest of us might be happier and more prosperous if they became truck drivers are moved to paraguay. that's true, and on some level, everyone knows it is true, and because it is true, that is why these very same people spend so much time screaming about how essential they are, because it is so obvious that they aren't. things worked perfectly well before we had hr departments. on the other side of the gas price divide, you have everybody else. this group includes the people who possess about 95% of the relative skills you would need to keep a civilization going. lose these people, and it is the dark ages, literally dark, your power grids shuts down. as it happens, these are the very people who have noticed and winced at the price of filling a tank. these are the peoples b

in 2009, barack obama voted not to invoke executive privilege from george w. bush. it has been the current guy, the current guy. joe biden has been making that same argument in court. one thing so important to remember, however, even if donald trump can somehow invoke executive privilege, that is not going to be the end of it. they will have to do a balancing act like they did in the richard nixon case. what is the need for the documents to come out and how important is it they remain secret. . >> even if he's not successful, it takes time. which may be the point here. walk us through what is next and how long in total this could take >> yeah. we're in front of the district court now. now, the judge has an interesting history here. she has gotten several of the january 6th cases relating to the criminal cases against rioters. and she's made interesting statements about the way she views what happened on january 6th. she said in one case, quote, a violent mob seeking to overthrow the lawfully elected deposit and a very real danger to our democracy. that shows judge c

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the response to, that was quick and harsh, barack obama is ignoring, covering up rape that took place in loudoun county school system, obama makes this statement, now a judge found this kid guilty of rape. but obama comes in they don't care about the rape victim, they don't care about the education to children or about concerns of the parents. how to we know? terry mccauliffe said throughout the race. that this radical racist ideology is a racist dog whistle, his opponent glenn youngkin is usin to divide the people, a racist dog whistle, now the parents and the rest of us have been watching over last year and a half. when there was virtual education, and we saw what the kids were taught. in people are making millions writing books that are used in classrooms and software that are used in the classrooms, here we have virginia department of education promoting a book, that says teachers must embrace theories such as critical race theory. despite the m fact that terry mccauliffe said we don't do that in virginia. they provide resources for -- equity initiatives with a tab titled what we'

what do you say to barack obama if terry mccauliffe? >> your children have choices when it comes to education. how about letting the rank-and-file. the rest of us have that same chase. you decide that your children should go to other schools, my children did not attend private schools, my children attended public school, your you had an opportunity to sense them to private school. why can't you allow the rest of us to have that same opportunity? mr. obama, why can't you allow our children to have the same children mr. mccauliffe, seems to me it is hypocritical, we're seeing right through that. because our children are the ones who are in danger of failing, we need better education systems, because we need to create generational wealth, our children cannot always start at the bottom. education lifted my farther out of property. he came to america with a dollar 75. from jamaica. took any job he could find he put himself through school, now he is comfortably retired. education lifted my farther out of father, and me out of bother. poverty.

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,

bill clinton and barack obama, two of the strongest speakers, even republicans would say, out there. incredible or raiders. they have stumped for people that lost. the reason for that is it is not bill clinton or joe biden or kamala harris or barack obama or donald trump either. it is that doesn't help them. that doesn't matter. it is the candidate, it is the issues and it is the campaign they run the race they run. you can have celebrities galore show up. at that does not move the needle and we see that election after election whether it is the end gubernatorial election or presidential election. >> well said, we will get more from leslie and jason as we continue our coverage on fox news channel, thank you so much. a quick look at the numbers again before we head to break a last check, 1200 votes separating murphy and ciattarelli. as i take a close look, a little over 1000, 1200 votes. the gop candidate hanging on despite a number of votes still out. >> who would've thought neck in new jersey, is this wake-up call for democrats? we will have more in our continuing coverage of electi

he forgets barack obama may have been the first black president but he will be the most progressive president i don't think that it's alarmist to suggest that at his age he is probably a one term president, and i think he recognizes that and i think anybody with eyes and ears and a pulse gets that,y so he's going to do as much as he can and as quickly as he can. >> the impact of this will be profound. >> absolutely. one of the things i like to say isnd you have to understand why are they doing all of this and the thing is in the isolation you can explain one or two things it's because of this or that, but it's not. they all tie together. everything is about maintaining permanent political power. so think about this because if you have power and it's permanent then you can continue past the policies so what do you need to do? two things, you need to maintain power so you pass the court, to, you make puerto rico a state and get potentially for democratic senators. the district devotes 95-5. it's like a given. guarantees you would never lose the super majority and then you need new voters so you

barack obama talked about shovel-ready jobs that took forevers for the shovels to show up. that is the same problem with this infrastructure bill. you know, i think broadly people wanted to support infrastructure but, this bill is just, the portion which is not even close to half of it, that is actual infrastructure has so many strings attached that make it, made it really impossible for nearly all republicans in the house to support. then when you look at following it on with build back better, it being a delivery vehicle, they're on to the fact that the word infrastructure is popular. now they're calling it social infrastructure or human infrastructure. it really is bernie's agenda. that is why he is so passionate about it but socialist policies all over have the same result. they deliver power for the people making the promises but they deliver economic failure and barren shelves, stockouts problems for the people that are supposed to be benefit by it. we don't need bread lines. we need the market to function. we're about to suffer a lethal overdose of government. we nee

obama president of the united states that this issue goes away. race and racial issues certainly are an issue. these three women are african-american. i'm not a woman of color clearly so i can't speak to it from their point. harris, i think they are both right -- there are three of them we're speaking of. the three of them are right and wrong and also entitled to their opinion. >> harris: you said it just because i'm a person of color i certainly don't agree and see the things way everybody else does. we don't represent an entire race. i think winsome sears said it perfectly. tackle whatever you want, jason. >> look, i think democrats really need to do some serious, serious self-reflection after this mini red wave election. they need to ask themselves whether they should reconsider their approach to things like critical race theory, vaccine mandates, asking children -- mandating children as little as 5 and 6 years old to mask for seven hours a day where they breathe and belittle parents who want a say in their children's education and curriculum.

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

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

but i also think to drill down on what barack obama said when he came. instead of acknowledging that there were issues with schools and we should look at them, he called it a trumped up culture war where president biden came, had a 60 minute speech. he mentioned trump dozens of times. nobody really thinks donald trump had anything to do with it. and when mcauliffe said instead of crt here's how i would change it. he said it didn't exist. he also said parents have no role in education. that the teachers faces are too white and then, of course, linking trump and charlottesville together fell flat. he never adjusted which is astounding. because this guy was a strategist getting other people elected, he couldn't handle a re-election for the most part because he won the first time in a state that he was supposed to have known so well. steve: terry mcauliffe was establishment candidate. he has been establishment candidate and politician his entire career. with quite understandably the establishment media when it was quite clear that republican in the fleece ve

a former campaign manager for barack obama said democrats should go on the offense against critical race theory. >> critical race theory was a lie and i think we need to go on the office. are you scared for your kids to learn about slavery or lynching or housing skrrgz? >> john: marc thiessen is a former white house speech writer. no parent, i'm a parent of twins is afraid to have them taught about slavery, lynching and ongoing societal problem but it's the lens through which many h many people want this taught that's an issue. >> that's 100% correct and this is the new line from the democrats and quite frankly from the liberal media. he said we're lying about critical race theory. no, they're not. last year the loudoun public schools paid $34,000 to equity collaborative for teaching teachers about critical race theory. "introduction to critical race theory." it says. quote. this is what they're telling them to teach. in c.r.t. racism is seen as an inherent part of american civilization. one of the parents was so concerned about this that they filed a public records request and they got

that's going to be the new talking point on the left and if he gets the fact that barack obama may have been the first black president but he will be the most progressive president and he wants to cement that. i don't think it's alarmist to suggest that at his age he is probably a one term president. and i think he recognizes that and anybody with eyes and ears and a pulse gets that. he's going to do as much as he can as quickly as he can. >> the impact of this will be profound. >> absolutely. i think one of the things that i like to say is you have to understand what i call the big y? why are they doing all ofthis ? the thing is it in isolation you can explain one or two things and say it's because of this or that. and it's not. they all tied together. everything is about maintaining permanent political power . if you have power and its permanent then you can continue to pass your policies in that item. what do you need to do? one is you need to maintain power in those key areas so you pack the court, too, you make dc a state in puerto rico a state so you get potentially forpermanent d

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

joe falls asleep and apologizeds just like his idol barack obama for america. he has no clue his own state department is planning onli playing illegal immigrants $450,000 each. he goes back again to beg opec and russia to produce more oil. joe, all you have to do is ask texas, alaska, north dakota,a, oklahoma. they will be more than happy to accommodate. the bottom line is democrats, who are they hurting? the poor and the middle-class. i thought nobody was going to pay a penny more if they made under $400,000 a year. nope. the people bearing the brunt of these policy are the poor and the middle class. for democrats political power is the only thing that matters. here is a fox news contributor and a fox nation host. you have followed everything in afghanistan. you followed everything on the border. we are watching the high price of gasoline and watching joe biden beg opec. and never mind foreign policy.y. joe didn't know about the $450,000 payments to illegals. i only see two members of the democratic party, joe manchin and krysten sinema and i will add james ca

of ideologues like susan rice or barack obama can take that man hostage and make them read their scripts, that's exactly what's happened. you saw clearly last week about our own peter doocy asked about the white house plan to pay reparations to illegal aliens have a million dollars per person. the idea of the administration doing it under any circumstances deranged. biden understood that immediately, so he responded when asked any normal person would, effectively what the heck are you talking about? that's crazy. watch. >> there were reports that your administrations claiming to pay illegal immigrants were separated from their families at the border up to $450,000 each possibly $1 million per family. do you think that might incentivize more people to come over legally? >> if you guys keep sending the garbage out, yeah. but it's not true. >> so it's a garbage report. >> yeah. >> tucker: well well, yeah, biden was right, reparations for illegals, that's garbage and most people think it buried they showed that over two-thirds of the country, a majority of democrats as well as republicans be

the house held eric holder, the attorney general for barack obama and contempt in the obama administration and obama justice department refused to prosecute that case. there is politics all over these cases. >> sure, i do think, you already alluded to this in your earlier conversation. what happens with bannon may be different than others. bannon was not there, he was not in the white house. he talked about this on air video before. there is no way to make the executive privilege claim whether or not others are successful that will play out whether or not you're indifferent, that will play out but this sends a very strong message that they're not playing around and that they want to get to the truth. this is unprecedented it is going to be treated as such. chris: were talking about the reasons of the banning cases but there is talk in washington concerning that it could open up a dangerous precedent in seeing the willingness of the biden administration to go after steve bannon and potentially to go after people with a stronger case like the white house chief of staff mark meadows that this

in they brought in barack obama, stacey abrams and it doesn't seem to have moved the needle. now, maybe we will find out that it did. that they brought out all these blue voters that wouldn't come. looks like a race between the candidates. glenn youngkin attached himself to real bread and butter issues. literal bread and butter issue 2.5% tax on groceries, education which is now the top issue. i would but the it this way, i think if glenn youngkin doesn't win, in this environment, facing a bad candidate with a lot of breaks that have gone his way it's hard for me to see any republican winning statewide in virginia. i think it will just be a blue state. >> bret: that's exactly right if that's what turns out. here are some sound about expectations tonight. >> i think virginia is a very important canary in a coal mine. biden has handed control much the agenda over to the radicals over the bernie sanders and aoc and elizabeth warren and i think people are horrified. i think virginia is aspect of that. >> there is a comfort level with terry that's positive. the little dynamic in t

obama was re-elected, democrats went on to a bloodbath in the midterm elections in 2014. so it does not always portend things. but a loss here from mcauliffe would send democrats into something of a tailspin and a ton of finger-pointing about that divided democratic party in washington. that, of course, has been haenging over this entire race. the grid lock in congress and between the white house. but president biden speaking just a short time ago in glasgow, wolf, as you know, he indicated optimism. he believes that terry mcalulife is going to win tonight. >> he predicted it. he said it flatly. we'll be getting back to you. stand by. >>> it's election night in america. tune in to see who wins the high stakes virginia governors race. plus the battle in new jersey, new york city. our special live coverage starts at 6:00 p.m. eastern tonight. >>> just ahead -- it's the moment so many parents have been waiting for. covid shots for kids. could get the official sign off as soon as tonight. so how soon could your child get vaccinated? that's next here in "the situation room." w

remember, barack obama was the first democrat to win virginia in 2008 since lbj. and since then, democrats have been on a serious winning streak. but youngkin keeping the distance from donald trump, biden being under water in the state, they have eroded in some places and youngkin was able to say look, i'm a businessman, i'm not a professional idealogue like some of these, and it's a big momentum shift. >> i'm going to walk over here and talk to these folks. so you heard what john avolon had to say about this. bakari, how much of this is terry mcauliffe's own fault, that he ran a bad campaign? >> as someone who has run a statewide race, i can tell you that hindsight is always 20/20. >> we're not just saying that now, though. people have been saying -- >> in a nationalized race and nationalized environment, you can't escape the drag that washington democrats have been on terry mcauliffe. and yes, i'm beating on them, and rightfully so. you can talk about the american recovery act and shots in arms, talk about the things that joe biden has done with the courts. all

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

obama so where does the bottom again? you look at things like virginia he won virginia idly by nine points on the result of winning independence by almost 20 points. glenn youngkin is leading independence over terry mcauliffe by close to 15 points in the last polls i have seen which is 35 to 40 point swing among independence in the country, so soon he will be in a 20% approval rating in independence which mean the approval ratings will sink and a sink and sink. maria: we will take a break and when we come back president biden ignores questions about the proposal to pay illegal migrants separated at the border and million dollars a family. we will get into it next with lieutenant christopher from the texas department of public safety. he will join us live from texas. through chase with chase freedom unlimited. that means that i earn 5% on our rental car, i earn 5% on our cabin. i mean, c'mon! hello cashback! hello, kevin hart! i'm scared. in a good way. i'm lying. let's get inside. earn big time with chase freedom unlimite

this is barack obama. meanwhile glenn youngkin on his own was outside at a place called short pump in the middle of a field and he got 3,000 people to his event on the same day. so clearly the enthusiasm is, they are running away with the enthusiasm. but one last point, let's not lose sight of the fact that with those characters that went and did their false flag operations outside of the youngkin bus, they were all virginia democrat senate work for the state -- and several them work for the state party. the state democratic party right now has one purpose and that's getting terry mcauliffe elected. >> harris: that's so interesting because i think kennedy, you asked, do we know if the mcauliffe campaign knew about that before? that's fascinating information that charlie hurt just injected into this conversation. we will move on. coming up, they may talk a good game on climate change but their actions state are a very different story. riding around in a massive motorcade before jetting off to the claimant s

barack obama told women no, your feelings don't count. they are phony. and then terry mcauliffe told women it doesn't matter what they are injecting into your children's brains. if the media keeps not telling the democrats what's really going on, there's going to be a bloodbath after bloodbath. >> thank you for the super analogy. i will go right to you, dana. she has made history, an african-american lieutenant governor, a heartbeat away from the governor and the commonwealth of virginia. she resists the crt and that whole progressive doctrine. it's because she's amazing and she has an incredible name. it is one that you will definitely remember. it will be fun to watch her career. i'm going to defend the media for a moment. they did try to tell them pure dear member that viral video when terry mccullough shut down the reporter and took off his microphone and said, i'm done? the reason is because the reporter was asking about education in schools and terry mccullough said, why don't you ask about things that virginians really care about? they tried to wa

with barack obama he gets a fourth of what glenn youngkin got last night. >> harris: the effect on the virginia race as well as what it could mean in 2022 with the sagging poll numbers for biden. richard fowler, like minded people on one side of the media aisle, we will call them liberal. many of them partake in that kind of language and tweets and so forth. and we know that the shock and awe has got to be how quickly this race tightened up. you mention that yourself. what does all of this mean to you when you hear people at the other networks saying trouble? >> i think there are a couple of things. what we see happening in virginia is a little bit of downward pressure from washington because you have gridlock on capitol hill getting joe biden's agenda done. low approval rating by the president and you have this movement in virginia by parents in classrooms saying they want to ban critical race theory even though there doesn't seem to be critical race theory being taught in many classrooms. it is coming to a head as voters go to the polls in virginia to figure out who the next governor

remind everyone on the panel barack obama and bill clinton lost midterms and both came back to be elected. this white house needs to regroup, reset and call on congress to pass the legislation in front of them. >> bret: you know i said last note to martha eventually because of this win that glenn youngkin was going to be whispered about the presidency at some point. i just didn't know it was going to happen wednesday with the panel. ben, your thoughts. >> we follow your lead, bret. >> i think when it comes to what harold is saying there, there is a lot of truth to it. one thing clear forever the democratic coalition going forward you cannot continue agenda when we lose the an election america is racist. somehow yesterday america proved that it was racist again or something like that. glenn youngkin was smart enough to run take arrows for it and reject it we will find he was rewarded by hispanic voters, by asian voters, by other voter continues in virginia that made the difference for him ultimately. we cannot continue this kind of race-based agenda that create the hierarchy for children i