0 tonight on all in. you endorsed youngkin? >> and i didn't uncle. i did i endorsed him strongly. >> the slow motion coup in progress and the last two investigations ongoing are tomorrow's vote in virginia is anything but normal. then, -- >> on december 17th the fbi gets a tipster call that warrants them that there's chatter on these extremists site that's pro donald trump. and they are saying let's kill these cops around congress on january. six >> blockbusters washington post -- tonight my exclusive interview with the d.c. homeland security official those warning of violence interactions were nerd. plus the texas law establishing a bounty to stop abortion, gets a hearing in the supreme court. >> that was something that until this law came along, no state dreamed of doing. >> and as joe biden heads to classical, why there is a case for real optimism at the un climate talks. when all in starts right now. >> good evening from new york i'm chris saints, on the eve of the biggest election of the year, donald trump wants everyone to know, that he and virginia republican glenn youngkin are thick of thieves. two peas in a pod. virtually indistinguishable from one another. you're going to have to take my word from it. trump released a statement today to the media, quote is trying to create an impression that glenn youngkin and i are at odds and don't like each other. importantly, this is not true, we get along very well together and strongly believe in many of the same policies. >> trump is also expected to call into a town hall supporting youngkin any minute now. and it will not be the first time. i remember that rally last month in richmond, virginia, where attendees pledged allegiance to an american flag that was at the january 6th insurrection on d.c.. trump also called into that rally to endorsed youngkin. but notably the guy he was endorsing the republican economy was not president at the very weird flag of in, in fact, he tried to distance himself from. it he will not be president at today's event, reporters said, quote, i will not going to be engaged in the tele-town hall. >> he sure won't be. >> i mean it makes a lot of sense. he is running as a republican in the state donald trump won by ten points just a year ago. he understands that if he wants to win, there needs to be some distance between himself and donald trump. right now looks like that strategy might be paying. up duncan holds he's a very serious competitor -- an outright favorite to win tomorrow virginia. it is a close race either way, take a step, back and look at the history of that state, it be a close race kind of makes sense. democrats and virginia have controlled the governor's mansion since 2014. the state has not along's tree of flipping against the party that controls the white house in congress. in comment, president george w. bush, won virginia by eight points, only for democrats tim kaine to win the gubernatorial race by five points. what was seen in the national committee comey to, -- and the disastrous handling of hurricane christina. the most visceral backlash came into thousand, i'd that's after democrats claim thousand 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 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 jersey's chris christie. that was an even more stunning [inaudible] because of the unusual -- and not during a midterm year an awfully because it's a kind of swing you stayed in some ways. the state often access [inaudible] for public sentiment. and normally that would not be unusual. this kind of pendulum in the major competitive parties is what democratic politics look like in liberal democracy all over the world. it is true, you've got example of some political leaders, who just stepped down. or brazil's former president, who is going to be running again. that hadn't been known to be building these last thing -- but for the most part, what happens in countries like france and italy, the uk swing back and forth, left and right, with some irregularities. the uk has had some conservative parties for a while now. but again, you've got this sort of competitive back and forth system of elections. it is just how political gravity works in a democracy. and some, ways at least in the abstract, when you take a step back, it's how you want them to work. you want competitive parties. single party rules is not really a sign of a wall functioning democracy of well things, considered. so with histories regard, it should not be very surprising if republican glenn gun winds tomorrow night. except it's not just any normal election. that is the problem, we are less than one year out than the last president, attempting a coup. outright pressuring elected officials to throw the vote in favor to say nothing to the mass leading to january six. and is anyone paying any site amount of attention that that same guy, the cool guy, the guy that tried to and 240 straight years of american democracy, look like he's trying to do it again, and a large part of that strategy seems to be endorsing candidate who he believes will help him overturn the will of the voters. should he need to. >> trump is pretty explicit in his embrace in states like arizona and georgia and michigan. who have endorsed his big lie of voter fraud and will have direct say over the elections next time around. and that, at least in my view, look, it makes the endorsement of you can somehow suspect. trump is not going to endorse someone who he thinks will not be there for him in three years if they need him. he thinks he has some reason to believe that youngkin is this guy. and here is youngkin a few weeks ago endorsing an audit of the election results. >> we need to make sure that people trust these voting machines. i just think, i grew up in a world where you have an audit and re-air, and in businesses, you have an audit. so it's just audit the voting that we received, publish it so everyone can see. it >> just audited. trust, we, wink, nudge. whether or not he'll overturn democracy in virginia, i don't know. but that's an intentional strategy on his part. but at least in temperament, former ceo of the equity, the coral, group presenting himself as an harmless virginia dad in that this. you see, youngkin, has rediscovered an old tribe true strategy that is where the kind of dissipated in the post trump political order but in good step. instead of just staying quiet part along, giving into his instincts, you can traffics in subtext, making the virginia election a referendum. but by education he doesn't mean school rankings, college for preparedness, or equity. he means virginia should not be teaching students that it exists in united states. just listen to what virginia republican from the county explain her concern within the state curriculum from showtime the circus. >> they are putting down the child for the color of their skin. >> where do you see evidence of that? one particular six greater in the middle school here, it was a rap some pushing the slaughter of the native americans. the lyrics of the song was putting down andrew jackson at the time. >> i think a lot of people would credit andrew jackson with the genocide of native population. >> yes, but how do you discuss it without -- >> demonstrating whiteness? >> yes. at one point when do you forgive and stop segregated? >> there it is, that's just one woman's opinion. but she is representative. i don't want my kid learning that andrew jackson was a vial, purveyor of genocide. please stop teaching my kid. that that is what i want to go vote for. you see, youngkin's credit is not the same as the outright racism that we heard from donald trump. calling immigrants from countries criminals, and rapists. it is subtle or, more -- channeling some energy -- the republican base here's the message flooding clear just as you heard. and as trump told fox news over the weekend youngkin needs that piece. >> i think he should win. i think he should. i'll be honest. my base has to turn out. if my base turns out, he is going to win. and i heard they turnout. i really want them to turn. >> you see what trump is doing there to? he is trying to claim credit for this victory, so we could call in the favor later. >> so youngkin's campaign is return to form for the republican party. give yourself just enough plausible deniability in the messaging that you push. you can flip some swing voters with a alienating your core base that worked up around these white backlash issues, but again, what makes it also scary is this specific political moment that we're. in because you cannot just pretend that trump's authoritarian -- are not. there it looms over all of it. they raised the existential stakes of what should be in quote, back and, fourth of political democracy. and what's different ideologies can compete for power. and it is not a sub state-able equal equilibrium that we have. here it is not. ron there's one of the two competitive parties, we only have two, that is on the this we have an authoritarian. who is committed to advancing his agenda. of being crowned ruler. democracy notwithstanding. and that is all happening while we watch the normal predictable pattern of politics. senator tim kaine representing -- who served from 2006 2010 and he joins me. now senator, you know the states politics as well as just about anyone. tell me about that governor's race in 2005. because i remember that being a big deal, and again, there was some of those dynamics in effect with terms of who's in power in the white house, and where the energy is's opposition, and how much do you think that matters? and how much was it just about virginia issues? >> well chris, you're right, the virginia governor race coming after the presidential race. you see a 70% turnout in the presidential year, and then the governor's race, the next year, it's going to be 47, it could be 45, 42. the turnout drop -- and you always see really really close races. my race was a single point race up until the election i ended up winning by five or six. but everybody thought that it was essentially a dead heat. so, this is sort of a common phenomenon and it just means that, you know, the party that has won the white house cannot be complacent. the one thing in this virginia race that i'll predict will be in factor tomorrow night, is that we have 45 days of early voting in virginia for the first time ever. in a governor's race because our democratic houses decided that they wanted to make it convenient for people to vote. the early vote is coming in very very strong for terry mcauliffe, but it is going to be a close race tomorrow. no doubt about. >> this is also going to be a first big election, there is a california recall that that was not very close, the first big election would all sort of nationalize on, i get, with donald trump endorsing this candidate under this picture of the big lie, and you've got the former president saying this today, we must win bigger than the margin of fraud by flooding the polls with those who believe in american first. you've got this really, again, unsustainable situation where there is almost an expectation that if it were a close loss for glenn youngkin that is not gonna be the end of it, as far as republicans are concerned. >> no, i think you're right, glenn youngkin -- started in -- the big lie about election fraud, problems with the 2020 election, he's finishing the campaign with an ad going after a lot. the african american woman for her winning novel, so he's finishing with this weird attack on an african american woman author again coating and dog whistle. this is a trumpian campaign. and on the democratic side we believe that if we win whether it's a close when. the youngkin team with the backing of trump will try to democrat so that is why it's so important that people turn out so that we can deliver a very very clear mandate tomorrow. because we expect the youngkin and trump team will try to challenge the integrity of the election. it's like they're already doing. they brought steve bannon in for a big rally, ten days ago. they pledged allegiance to a flag that they used that the quote, peaceful protests on january 6th 2021. in d.c., they're setting it up for an attack on virginia's election integrity, virginians are a priest -- there is a question here about what this race is about. it's funny, when i spent time on youngkin's website, i've been reading the local coverage -- that one parent activists in young and -- apparently a lot of this about whether kids learning, are they learning the history of racial hierarchy and things like that. those are real issues, in the sense that are our parents that are worried about that and they're actually like big normative fights in democracy. what do kids learn? but, i can't really find anything else about what exactly a glenn youngkin gubernatorial administration would look like in the state of virginia. other than this sort of coating on, defund the police or security or whatever. >> well, i think you're right chris. and virginia folders are in danger. -- because he is in putting up anything about what he wants to do is governor, he wants to use these cultural issues. i'm sure i got a lot of virginia's watching this, virginia schools are some of the best performing schools in the country. not only pre-k 12 schools but also higher institutions. most governors if they could do a secret ballot would trade their education systems for virginia. terry mcauliffe great edging -- investing in education, expanding early childhood education. -- better funding for community colleges. a lot of people move to virginia because the public schools are very very high quality. that doesn't mean we can't do more. we've talked about the fact that our teachers are and paid the national average the way they should be. and he wants to move it there. but, glenn youngkin is trying to kind of create an inflate a culture of grievance, against schools and school teachers. it showed that it doesn't really match up with the reality of one people in most virginia -- >> all right, senator -- commonwealth virginia. thank you for making time for us tonight. it is a big night tomorrow night, msnbc's live electric election coverage kicks off at 5 pm eastern. and then stick around to join me, rachel maddow, jaw rave, that steve kornacki there as well. 9:30 eastern. don't miss it. on wednesday january 6th, as we watch thousands of trump supporters -- one of the biggest questions of the day was, why was law enforcement so unprepared? 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