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,

but it was a big enough deal that it is something the newly-elected president, barack obama, reflected on publicly when he trotted out on inauguration night, on that big night, to what was then called the youth ball, to share how he knew that and what it meant for the future. so on this journey tonight, thinking about this set of generations and the youth, he gets the last word. >> young people everywhere are in the process of imagining something different than what has come before. [ cheers and applause ] where they imagine bigotry, they imagine togetherness. where there is disease, they imagine a public health system. i can't tell you how many people have come up to michelle and myself and said, you know, i was kind of skeptical, but then my daughter, she wouldn't budge. she just told me, i needed to vote for obama. and so a new generation inspired previous generations. and that's how change happens in america. [ cheers and applause ] >>> coming up next we are joined by a global music sensation. his name is lil baby. his music is popular among all generations around the world. he's a

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

. >>> barack obama honored jay-z at the rock and roll hall of fame induction. obama said in part, quote, this, i've turned to jay-z's words at different points in my life. jay-z is one of the most renowned artists in history and an embodiment of the american dream, a dream he has helped make real for other young people like him. >>> with october in the rear view, the country's box offices are celebrated. october was the best month for the domestic box office since the pandemic started, grossing over $638 million. 78% was driven by major films including "venom," "no time to die," and "halloween kills." growing consumer confidence and returning to cinemas amid the pandemic led to october's gains. >> still ahead, one day before the city elects a new mayor, the deadline for workers to receive the vaccine leave as shortage of firefighters. "way too early" will be right back. "way too early" will be right back like the splash they create the way they exaggerate the surprises they initiate. otezla. it's a choice you can make. otezla is not an injection or a cream it's

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

obama got elected it felt like a historic moment because it. was i am a little, bit i'm gonna take a step back for politics. this feels different, why? and what do you see as the antidote. >> i think it feels different because it is not the people who are stepping back out of the sense of relief, right? i think the people who are pulling back to progressives are really very engaged. but i think plenty of people find this so poisonous that in order to preserve their own sanity the sort of have to take a step. back the total political involvement that was the aim of getting trump out of office. got people threw themselves into for four years isn't sustainable. and so i think in order for people to get involved once again, there needs to be people in the party who say that, if you fight for this, democracy 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. >> yes i think that's very well said. i'll be here, and i denied out, bad feelin

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

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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

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

if you think about positive male figures, you know, i think barack obama is a great male role model. he's a responsible husband, responsible father. he studied hard. he works hard. he plays sports. he's athletic. he does all those things. they would never bring him up. there are other great examples in popular culture of positive nontoxic males. chadwick boseman's "black panther" character. those are movies that made millions of dollars. our society is not in shortage of nontoxic male figures. that's not what josh hawley is putting forward. they're putting forward donald trump who stands for everything they claim they don't stand for. >> right. i'm running out of time. liz, the idea that masculinity not unlike the best version of americanism is something that would be forged together, it's something that you explore in your book. what do you mean by mindful masculinity? >> it's important to have compassion in this conversation. there are a lot of men who are suffering in this country, but our inability to see men as vulnerability clouds us. i'll leave you with one data point. we're s

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

after the 2010 loss, there were people on the left who were literally writing op-eds saying barack obama shouldn't run for president again. those are sort of crazy hot takes that you get in all this and not understand this pattern. and the question is can we break this pattern and how do we go about breaking this pattern because what you've talked about is right. the party in power gets punished the next year there's a historical trend there. but what i would say is different about what's happening now, ari, this is really important for us to understand, is we actually have to break that trajectory because, ari, we don't break that going into this midterm, it may well be the last sort of midterm or end of democracy as we know it because if you look at what republicans are doing across these states and you know, in the state legislative bodies and if you look at that, if we can't stop that from the federal level, we don't know what 2024 is going to look like. we may have a next presidential election where, where if republicans are in control, they actually throw out the votes and they put

the only time the pattern was broken in 2013 when a leader after barack obama was reelected president and some guy named terry mcauliffe was elected governor of virginia and then the pattern went back to the same as it always been. one party wins the white house and other party wins virginia's mansion. youngkin has history and momentum on his side. what mcauliffe has on his side is math. the fact that this has been a bluer and bluer state and so the question is, do enough democrats come out to vote for mcauliffe? does youngkin motivate republicans in a year when trump is not on the ballot which plays both ways. right, trump is in a lock box. we'll not know until tonight how this works out. i think anybody tells you they know how this is going to play is wrong. we just don't know yet. i don't rule out the possibility that other candidate could win convincingly either because of the momentum or the math. let's see. >> let's put sam stein in the position telling us how this is going to play out. >> white house senator for politico. sam, how is it looking in virginia, any polls giving you

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

barack obama didn't do it as president. joe biden isn't going to do it. one important thing to remember, this is a woman as a senator tried to get an anti lynching law enacted and we haven't had one enacted in this country that had more lynchings than any other country. we can't get anti lynching law here. people don't want to legislate in that area. she trieded to do things to push criminal justice reform and police reform. she and cory booker supported it. that is dead. i want to remind you we talked about this judge. he's elected. he's a politician. he's an elected official until the state of wisconsin so this has to do with another piece she's attempting to work on is the vote. can people get access by the means you can replace this man and do you bother? he ran unopposed the last time he was put in that office and the last thing i'll say is we want to zoom out. we want kamala harris to be all things to all people. she has to represent everything black. but she's not the only person responsible to do that. this system is not on her shoulders. she didn

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

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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

the two of them are there between barack obama and laura bush. the whole thing felt very -- i keep harping on, it felt familiar, because i know that's a weird thing to say about a funeral but it felt like a familiar comfort, almost, in a way. i just think there is so much about general powell that we were reminded of today, the seminal human theme. we don't even mention his service as a young military officer. the guy was in vietnam twice, he has a purple heart because he was in a helicopter crash and ran back to pull out three people. there's so much about him that we know but we've forgotten because he's done so much. i found i'm glad i sat and watched this today, i think it was a comfort. i hope other people got comfort from this service as well, particularly his family. >> it's such a lovely thought. helene cooper, thank you so much for joining us, for watching this service with us and for being with us today, we thank you for that. eugene robinson, let me bring you into the conversation. did you too find comfort in this? >> i did, i learned

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 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

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

my friend and the man about whom, president barack obama once said, everybody who speaks after michael eric dyson, pales in comparison. 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. >> thank you for your graciousness in your wonderful spirit of openness. entertaining in three ways. first of all black people from the very beginning of soldiering america has had entertained the dominant white culture. from the slave ship to the plantation. to the stage of performance. number two we've had to entertain the idea of race. constantly we are negotiating between him betwixt. segments of our society, that mandate that we address explicitly or implicitly, the issue of, race and thirdly we have had to find ways to be entertaining while talking about race. how do we think about race in ways that are not those old freezes that seemed to be ruthlessly clichÉd for some people. we have to find new and inventive ways to try to speak, new

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

. >> 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

and at the glasgow global climate summit, former president barack obama criticizing active hostility against science by the trump administration, telling world leaders that people should vote like their lives depend on it because it does. >> there is one thing that should transcend our day-to-day politics and normal geopolitics, and that is climate change. it's not just that we can't afford to go back ward, we can't afford to stay where we are. the world has to step up, and it has to step up now. >> joining us is anne thompson from glasgow. so what was the effect of obama's speech? we don't hear from him that often? >> reporter: well, andrea, he had two messages, and he had two audences in this speech. one is the audience behind me, the people here at this climate summit. he urged them to do more to combat climate change. he says he knows it will be hard, but we are way behind. we need to do more. his second audience was congress and the american people, and he urged congress to pass president biden's spending bill that includes a half trillion dollars in clean energy investments. >>

. >> 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

barack obama was a master at that. and there have been democrats up and down the ballot who have done that well over the last 20 or 30 years, but there's always a bunch who don't seem to be able to do it and they lapse into a kind of technocratic policy driven lingo. especially at a time like this where the country is on fire with anxiety, fear, grievance, anger, polarization and panic still for a lot of people, what steve was talking about, the lack of control over our lives that a lot of people feel in the wake of the pandemic and of everything that's happened over the last couple of years. if you can't speak in that kind of emotional language that hits at the psychic solar plexus of the country, you are at a huge disadvantage because republicans in their exploitive way, are really good at that. and that fear. if democrats don't have a way to talk about it, they will lose next year no matter how successful the biden economic agenda is. they'll be at a huge disadvantage in the midterms because that's where a lot of th

and we evidenced that all of the time, record-breaking turnout for barack obama in 2008. what was the result of that? we restored the u.s. economy. record-breaking of that? record breaking turnout in 2008. we got the affordable care act done. health care for 20 million american citizens. never been done in over 100 some odd years but they got a brother from chicago to get it done. if you understand what i am talking about. so when the people vote the people win. we must tell our story and not get so lost in the fighting with the progressives, this and that. what we know is this, build back better one and two will transform the american economy across the board. will transform people's lives. will breathe life and hope into folks who historically lost hope. but if you keep following the republicans, then you going to get hell. look at what's going on in pennsylvania, jonathan. look at what's going on in pennsylvania. the republicans in pennsylvania have issued subpoenas for 9 million registered voters for their driver's license, their social security, their email address,

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

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

also when we think about you know barack obama feeding jay-z, that's coming full circle. obama was made president because of a guy like a jay-z opening up space for young white people to believe that a highly authoratative black man can speak intelligently and black man can be a leader and white fox can follow a person like that. that created a political space for obama to manage and escalate himself and to elevate the ladder of success. in both of that census opened performances for black people in this country. >> i want to ask you, you started talking about the power of music, i can speak from my own experience as a white kid in the suburbs listening to hip-hop, it started with a good beat and all of a sudden you are listening to the lyrics of nwa or public enemy and you are hearing the stories of what's happening in their lives and community and you are listening and paying attention and understanding. what was the power of that early hip-hop as it started top move from the inner cities and spill out into the suburbs and as you say open some space for other people to

and michelle obama, george w. bush. our most recent president wasn't there. bill clinton is still recovering from his recent hospitalization, but his wife, former secretary of state hillary clinton was there as well. powell received heartfelt eulogies. >> as i grew to know him, i came to view colin powell as a figure who almost transcended time. his service to the country he loved will long survive his passing. >> i've ahead it asked, are we still making his kind? i believe the answer to that question is up to us. to honor his legacy, i hope we do more than consign him to the history books. i hope we are a nation where we are still making his kind. >> listen real carefully and you might hear our savior say, colin, welcome home, and here is your starry crown. >> powell was 84 years old and will be remembered as one of the greatest public servants of our time. all in with chris hayes starts now. >>> tonight on "all in", wow, that's a biggie. >> the end of the pandemic, at least as it relates to the united states is

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.