At stake here, both hotly contested races for both governor and u. S. Senate in the Sunshine State with razor thin margins being looked at. The recount is prompting protesters to take to the streets as republicans cry foul and fraud. Theyre clearly trying to commit fraud to win this election. Thats all this is. You think that is the senator himself is committing fraud . Well, its his team. Lets go right to nbc alex in Broward County, florida, where there have already been issues with the recount. The energy is certainly there right behind you. Yeah, absolutely, richard. You can see there are a lot of supporters of President Donald Trump behind me here. They take issue with the supervisor of elections brenda snipes. There were issues this morning. They got a four hour delay counting ballots and they need every minute because a deadline of 3 00 p. M. Thursday. All theyre doing right now is sorting through those ballots. Theres 3. 5 million pages worth of ballots. Taking off the first page, thats going to take 30 to 35 hours. Only then can they begin the recount. Theyre bringing in two more machines from Central Florida to try to speed this up, but as i hear, somebody said bring a pillow. Its going to be a long, long time for them. Alex there in Broward County for us. Thank you. In addition to floerkrida, multiple races remain undecided including georgia governors race where bryian temp has claimed victory. Arizona, democrat Representative Kyrsten Sinema leads Martha Mcsally by about a percentage point and a half. In mississippi a runoff later this month will decide the race. In california, five house races remain uncalled as absentee ballots continue to roll in. Included is the 48th district where long time republican representative Dana Rorbacher trails harley ruda. Former secretary for skmohouse Communications Committee, matt walsh, allen smith, nbc political reporter. As were watching all of these th that are still out there, there have been a handful of days since election day has been here. Theyve allowed up to friday to reach the polling stations or whatever you had to send it. What do you expect to be happening at the end once we get all of these results in . Well, look, once we get all the results in, the results might look even better for democrats, especially compared to the narrative that emerged on Election Night itself. On Election Night it looked like democrats were getting a huge gain in the house, but in the senate it was a little more depressing. They lost a couple of seats. It looked like they were going to lose nelson seat. It looked like they were going to lose in arizona. A lot of democrats are saying this wasnt quite a result. Republicans are saying wlook at the seats we gained in the house. But if sinema can pull ahead, thats a totally different narrative. You can see those who saying fraud and he said there were supporters of donald trump that were claiming this at least in what is the recount right now in the state of florida. It doesnt seem like were in a new level of collaboration based on some of the comments made on sunday shows today. Republicans are really quick to scream voter fraud just as quick as they are to ignore voter suppression. What were seeing happen right now florida, quite frankly, is inconceivable. This makes absolutely no sense and i really think that it needs to be an investigation. This is very unfair i think to senator nelson. I think its extremely unfair to Andrew Gillum, but its also unfair to the nepeople in flori that came out in droeves to vot. The fact that its been 18 years and florida still has not been able, even with the advancement of technology, to still not be the biggest screw up when it comes to elections in our country. It not only harms our democracy, but it erodes the trust in our electoral process. Something needs to be done. Lets look towards 2020 for two seconds here when we look at what happened this past week. Matt, when you look at how democrats have done at least in the senate races in key states like ohio and wisconsin and pennsylvania, those states that went for donald trump, it looks favorable for democrats looking forward to 2020. That and also the suburban districts like stat en island. You can count those mid westerns states as filling in for suburban districts themselves. People who voted for obama twice, then voted for trump, are now voting for whoever is not a republican. Tha thats going to be a problem for republicans Going Forward. For democrats its who can you coalesce behind as a president ial candidate. That question is a lot more vague coming out of this. Theres a lot of enthusiasm for beto orourke because of the way he makes democrats feel. But theres no question that republican professionals that i respect are looking at this and saying even if were not calling this a wave, this is a really bad day for us, even if it means the republicans are going to hold the senate maybe not just through 2018 but 2020 and beyond because they have a pretty stronghold. Were you going to Say Something . Yeah. I was going to say i really think republicans should be a little bit concerned, and you guys might agree. Even though georgia did not turn completely red as of yet depending on what happens with the kemp and abrams, its not really as red as it used to be. Its going a little bit more purple. Were starting to see that red and that blue sort of mix up. So i think yeah. These numbers right here. We would have not seen this two years ago. No. And the fact that in arizona as well you werent seeing this. So i think the republicans do have something to worry about here for 2020. If were going to look at 2020, arizona, georgia, theyre going to become swing states. Theyll be swing states people do a lot of campaigning in. Even texas with betos strong result, that will come into play. Who will lead the democrats . That has been the discussion since tuesday. Nancy pelosi going to be leading democrats it appears. Theres nobody better i think one would say in controlling a caucus as well as whipping votes and raising money. She is certainly a formidable opponent to donald trump or to republicans. I look at her as the Mitch Mcconnell of the democratic party. Nobody loves Mitch Mcconnell. Hes actually the most hated senator when jeff flake finally pieces out. Hes the most hated senator among republicans. People campaign against Mitch Mcconnell in republican primaries all across the land. But on election day and also on confirmation day, boy, do they like Mitch Mcconnell, because he actually gets his conference in line and does what they want and need to do. So they have a different view from them. I think democrats are going to take a similarly pragmatic look at the universally not particularly well loved nancy pelosi. The language has been fairly pragmatic, at least over the last five days or so. I think i dont think the democrats right now need to focus on changing their leadership when it comes to nancy pelosi. I think they need to show some sort of consistency, because right now we have soon a lot of new faces come into the party. We have seen a lot more liberals coming into the party. I think kind of switching up those leaders would disrupt things. I think they stick with nancy pelosi for right now. But as you mentioned, i was a press secretary for the democratic policy and Communications Committee and we had three cochairs. I will say that jeffries is very popular as a potential speaker, not only for democrats but also for republicans. Hes very popular on both sides of the aisle and he would be the first black speaker of the house. Part of this complexion that were talking about is also the youth, right . Because we saw them come out. Double digit growth its wi believed in early counts in terms of the eligible voters. Its a big jump for those that are young and anticipating in this past election. Yeah. And they certainly had a large effect and were seeing that even represented with younger representatives being elected. I know here in new york specifically obviously cortez gets a lot of the headlines, but there are a lot of younger people being elected to congress, more people can relate to. Part of this is also latino americans out voting in big numbers, too, at least according to pugh. Are we seeing a move not only in youth in terms of the advantage . You said 49 now potentially. Are we also seeing a latino voting block for activated . I think its too early to tell, but its possible. Certainly some hard core restrictionists on immigration got bounced. Kris kobach from the governor of kansas lost in his election. The Republican Party became more trumpified. The senate, even if it was 5248 come is a slim possibility is way more pro trump. If trump is identified as the persona of a party and its approach, particularly towards immigration but every single class of hyphenated, that could become the mill stone what it was in california in the 1990s. So lets go quick. Lets pull back and look forward to the next two months. Whats going do happen . Well, youre going to see a lot of posturing. You might see some rhetoric saying House Democrats are going to work with President Trump. President trump is going to say im willing to listen on any policy stuff, but were not going to really know the direction things are going until people are sworn in in january and we see a lot of the stuff start to come out of the house, some of the investigations begin, the policy proposals. Might we have an early fight because of whitaker . Definitely. Its happening. Theyre in the rink right now. Tied to the budget . About the only i dont know about tied to the budget because nobody really wants to go there. Its the one bill that Congress Passes on every year on december 23rd. Suspect that to be true Going Forward. The only kind of legislation i have any sense of hope about this new era is criminal justice reform. I think its more likely now than it was before given democrats winning and Jeff Sessions being bounced. I think donald trump is a motivated actor on that. Stay with us. Coming up, top House Democrats are fighting to safe Robert Muellers investigation calling for acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker to recuse himself. Now here we are talking about winning the most jd power iqs and appeal awards. Talking about Driverassist Technology talking about cars that talk and listen. Talking about the highest Customer Loyalty in the country. But thats enough talking. Seriously. That was a lot of talking. 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Millennial millenn top Congressional Democrats are now calling for acting attorney general Matthew Whitakers recusal from Robert Muellers investigation. In the new letter today, the Justice DepartmentEthics Office lawmakers are saying whitaker has demonstrated clear bias against the special counsel probe. If whitaker does not step down, senator minority leader Chuck Schumer said democrats will add a measure that bipartisan support in the next spending bell to protect the investigation. Lets bring in paul butler. He is also an msnbc legal analyst. Where are we on this today . The president had a number of options for selecting and acting attorney general. He could have appointed the Deputy Attorney general or the solicitor general or he could have done what president obama did and select one of the 90 acts u. S. Attorneys. Instead the president kind of scraped the bottom of the barrel with Mark Whitaker who is not even a conservative mainstream person. Hes a far right extremist. He thinks that judges should follow the christian bible. He does not believe in marbury versus madison, the case that establishes judicial review. Hes way out there beyond these concerns. Publicly. Yes. And beyond the concerns about him being the inaugurations chief Law Enforcement officer, hes way eighed in on the russi investigation. He applied for this position on cnn. He knew the main criteria was the loyalty pledge to the president , so he thinks the investigation is a witch hunt. So then the debate is political . Yes, potentially. But is it legal versus what might be protocol, right . This is legal, the president can do this. Yes about. Protocol in the past is not follow this. Well, theres actually a legal argument against his attorney. So Kellyanne Conway as the president called him, Kellyanne Conways husband wrote a piece in the New York Times where they said this appointment is illegal. The constitution requires principle officers to be confirmed by the senate. The concern is the president has this extraordinary power to name the heads of the various cabinet positions. Hes got to do that with the advice and consent of the senate. The question might be what is going to happen next, then, in terms of making it through this process . If you listen to some House Democrats, theyre on the sunday shows this morning, theyre setting the stage for him to be called before a commit really as soon as they take control of the house in january. You had jerry nadler saying stuff like were ready to call him forward really as soon as possible. So lets play that. Lets play what jerry nadler said today. We can subpoena the final report. We can subpoena mueller and ask him in front of the committee what was in your final report. Those are things we could do. But the fact is, any such interference would be part of a pattern of obstruction of justice. This is all about whitaker and him wanting jerry nadler for recusal. Hes not the only democrat youre alluding to. Yeah, of course. If whitaker does not recuse himself, theyre letting the stage dry for him to be called before the committees. Lets also not sleep on what hes saying in terms of the release of the mueller report. Imagine your worst Case Scenario from a democratic point of view or some other points of view. You might have one here. Im sure julie will tell me immediately. If whitaker comes in and in words the Chris Christie from this morning and brings this in for a landing from a trump favorable point of view, if they somehow suppress the report, it cant stay suppressed, because the house is run by the democratic party. They will then invite mueller to testify and he will testify in full what was in the report. Itll come out. Theres no way for it were talking like a month now too. Look at the norms were violating here on a daily basis. Were actually talking about the fact that the president of the United States has appointed somebody who is wholly unqualified purely on the basis of the fact that he has said publicly that he thinks theres no russian collusion or no russian involvement in this election. We know thats false. That he has said consistently that this is a discredited investigation that Robert Mueller should be if not outright fired starved of funding. The only reason hes sitting there is because he has auditioned on one criteria and one criteria only and is tthat that hes doing the bidding of the country and whats best for donald trump personally. That is a norm we have not seen since watergate. We know what happened with watergate when you had attorney general after attorney general stepping down because they were forced to. And you have the same situation here. Its unconscionable this is happen. So could Robert Mueller, knowing it was potentially an option to happen, and it has now happened, does he have all those indictments already sealed and ready to go and just send them out and theyre ready to go . The same answer is always we have no idea what Robert Mueller is doing. Its certainly possible he could have done that. The stakes here are high. We have Matt Whitaker not only supervising the russia investigation, but supervising a Cabinet Department that has 100,000 employees and a budget of 30 billion. And supervising technically an investigation that hes involved in. So the ftc, the federal trade commission, went after a company that he was on the board of. Got 25 million from this company for fraud and allegedly theres a criminal investigation of this company in miami. Now whitaker is supervising a criminal investigation that could involve himself. Wheres the homework here . Well, look, i think Something Interesting this past week zbl was the homework before you appointed somebody. Trump said when he was asked about Matt Whitaker, i dont know Matt Whitaker and this was after he said on fox and friends i know Matt Whitaker. Its usually about him trying to distance himself from someone under a lot of scrutiny. To your question, he actually has done his homework. The only criteria is the Mueller Investigation. He doesnt care about anything else. The one piece of homework he did do is whitaker will act the way Jeff Sessions didnt and make sure this investigation goes nowhere. As soon as that was made, he said you did say you knew him versus what you said today. Does it matter he knows or does not know . Is it just for the appearance there of that hes not an old buddy of mine . I think it matters in terms of what trumps real motives are. Its not like they didnt know that sessions was going to be removed from office. Trump couldnt wait. He was just waiting for the midterm elections. Trump wouldnt even give him that. This is a person whos been vetted as you say, but the most important criteria was where he is on the Russian Investigation and his answer is mr. President , its a witch hunt. So as we look at what they might be doing, democrats, once they take power come january, some of the proposed house investigations against the president with the new congress, taxes. That was mentioned this weekend on the sundays. As well as a probe into potential conflicts of interest, which we have talked about throughout the last couple of years. The treatment of undoumcumented immigrants and a look into the issue of kavanaugh. When we look at that whole host of items, the big one, though, is impeachment. This is what jerry nadler said today. Impeachment is a question that will come up down the road maybe, depending on the findings of the Mueller Administration and of other investigations. Were far from that right now. The interesting tone there is that very toned down, if you will, compared to what we heard before from cries for impeachment of this president. Impeachment, and correct me if im wrong here, impeachment wasnt a big issue in the midterms. Im going before the midterms. Before the midterms, yeah, but it was interesting it cooled down before. Part of it was mueller wasnt making news the last six weeks which i dont think is an accident. I think hes preparing whatever hes preparing for later. Also if youre trying to win back a swing district, thats not what youre going to go with. Im peachme impeachment plays well in my district but not in other places. Lets see what mueller comes up with and act accordingly. Are the democrats, is that the right tone you just heard from jerry nadler . Its absolute the right tone. I would caution my democratic friends not to rush towards impeachment. We dont know whats going to happen with the Mueller Investigation. Theres a bunch of other lawsuits that are making their way to the court. Right now we dont know what those are. Let the process take its course. Let the hatred of the president by some members of the Democratic Base not sway what we have to do. Theres no reason to rush out and storm the barricades. How quickly does the appointment of whitaker scare you on the Mueller Investigation . It frightens me, because he said that the way to end the investigation is not to fire mueller. That would be bad politically. He said you just starve it to death. You dont give them the money that they need. In supervising the investigation, he has to approve every new direction the investigation takes and he approves the budget, most importantly. He, again, will decide what happens with the report. So hes got an extraordinary power and hes already at the le graphed to the whole world what he wants to do with his pow. Great conversation. Appreciate your time. 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Winds are expected to pick up today which will make fighting the flames even more difficult. Th thousands of firefighters are spread out fighting the camp, hill, and woolsey fires. Steve patterson is live for us on scene in paradise, california. Reporter richard, it is so surreal being on the ground here in just about every direction in this town of about 30,000 there is extreme damage, if not abject destruction. This is pearson road which has one of the most heartbreaking sights. You can see the electrical poll, but the cars charred out, the remains in ruin goes for about a mile in this direction. Its heartbreaking and horrifying. Weve heard the stories. We know people trying to escape, trapped in their car, trapped behind traffic, were worried about being incinerated, saw the flames coming towards them. You can see in some cases the results. Horrifying because we know in some cases people were killed this way. In some cases some of the remains so badly burned that dna trucks are having to be brought in so they can be matched with family members and those remains identified. There is a little bit of a good news here. You see the break in the weather. It looks like its actually daylight right now. That was not the case at this time yesterday. Some of the winds have pushed out some of the thick smoke, so firefighters are taking more of an aggressive posture today to fire the front of it, now burning to the northeast of paradise. Thats where an aerial attack is taking place. They can finally see the hot spots they need to push the line of the fire back. Theyre hoping to extend the amount of containment on this fire. At this point theres about 25 . This is a fire thats burned more than 100,000 acres, destroyed more than 6,400 homes. The fire continues to burn. Firefighters, i feel like with this small window, this lull in the weather, that they feel like they can pushback. However, scores more people are missing along with the number of dead. This is the a situation thats ongoing and it will be for days. It is so tough there. Thank you for that report. Over 100 people still missing right now. 25 confirmed dead so far. I want to go to al adam, Current City Council member. Councilman, thanks for being with us. You have had a very, very difficult recent week. When we just look at the fires themselves, tell me what you have what you know in terms of the latest there in Thousand Oaks. Youre absolutely right, richard. Its been unprecedented. The city has been under tremendous stress. Weve evacuated as many as 75,000 people over the last couple of days. The winds have kicked up again out here, santa ana winds, and so were very vigilant, but the hot spots could be reignited. We have started to repopulate some of the areas, but most of our town is still under a mandatory evacuation. Councilman, i mentioned that there are more than 100 people missing all across the state because of these fires. Do you have any count there for th Thousand Oaks . No missing people at this point. Thats good. That were aware of, although we have lost structures. Somewhere 30 to 40 homes. The Mobile Home Park which is right down the street from me unfortunately suffered some heavy damage. We lost about 15 homes there. Some Senior Citizens that lived there. Its really tragic. How are your everyday citizens doing now . I was just in california for the last three days and you had to wear masks. The air was thick. You couldnt even see very far. It smelled like fire all the way in san francisco, for instance. Yeah. The air is virtually unbreathable. Many of the citizens are wearing masks. Many of our citizens remain in Evacuation Centers and theyve been there for a number of days now. Im sure theyd love to get home. Air quality, give me more detail on that. What are you suggesting for your residents to go in this situation . Its not good. Well, if youre in your home, stay in your home. You dont want to get out and breathe this area. If youre in an evacuation center, you need to stay there as well. Stay off the streets. Stay inside and if you do have to go out, a mask is definitely preferable. Councilman, you know, as i was mentioning, its been a tough week for your town, for your city. Can you reflect on after the shooting and now this how your residents are holding up . How are those who work for all the amazing Public Services there holding up as well . Well, naturally, the immediate concern are the fires, but once were able to get those under control, which right now is only about 10 contained, well move on to the recovery process. I have meetings scheduled first thing monday morning to get that process started. We have a couple of different fronts to manage. As far as the shootings, we had a vigil thursday night for the victims. Its an overflow crowd at Thousand Oaks. Even though were 129,000 people, were still a small town. Everybody knows each other. The memorial for Sergeant Ron Helus is this thursday at Calvary Community church. Well certainly all be attending that. Unfortunately, were going to have more Memorial Services to come. We have to put the city back together. We have a fast track Recovery Efforts to get the homes rebuilt and get our citizens back home again. Councilman, i must say, there are Many American whose share that energy and hope the best for you. Al adam, a Council Member there in Thousand Oaks, california. President trump was in france earlier today. He got a bit of a lecture from french president Emmanuel Macron. Details next. I landed. I saw my leg did not look right. I was just finishing a ride. I felt this awful pain in my chest. I had a pe blood clot in my lung. I was scared. I had a dvt blood clot. Having one really puts you in danger of having another. 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Kristen, has there been any response from the white house as of that statement . Reporter there hasnt been, richard, but i can tell you that it was one of several moments throughout this trip that critics would argue sort of points to the fact that the United States is becoming increasingly isolated not only from france but from its other european partners. It sort of all started when President Trump landed here, touched down, and took aim at french president e man yammanun for suggesting europe should build its own military. Then yesterday President Trump missed a trip to visit a cemetery where more than 1,500 u. S. Soldiers were buried, the white house saying because of the rain and it created security issues. There have been a lot of drch differences between this president and french president in recent months. These two initially had a bromance. This appears to be fizzling over disputes ranging from iran to syria, climate policy. But throughout this weekend, they did aim to strike a united front and after that ceremony that you just played there, all of the leaders, nearly agt 80 o them did have a lunch, and then President Trump went to another cemetery where american soldiers are buried and there he talked about the alliance with the u. S. Take a listen to what he had to say. Exactly 100 years ago today on november 11th, 1918, world war i came to an end. Thank god. It was a brutal war. Millions of american french and allied troops had fought with extraordinary skill and valor in one of the bloodiest conflicts in human phistory. We are gathered together to pay tribute to americans who gave their last breath in that mighty struggle. Reporter and as you mentioned, President Trump heading home where hell face a range of challenges back in d. C. Chief among them the fact that democrats recently won the house of representatives, this past week during the midterm elections, so the president and the white house really bracing for what they believe will be a blizzard of investigations and subpoenas. This weekend really momentous and historic here in paris. The leadership of freedom for the world, if you will, was or hope to be with Angela Merkel and now with her retirement the question might be in that belief of m and m, merkel and macron, is it macron now . Reporter well, thats a good question, richard. I think thats why there is so much focus on the relationship between President Trump and macron and the fact that you have these two ideologies that are so distinct. Macron really mapped that out today in those comments. A lot of people were curious to see how forceful he would be. He reiterated themes we have heard from macron in the past, but today, the fact that he said what he said just feet away from President Trump, he made it very clear that he is the one whos going to be carrying that torch forward of multinationalism, a rejection and a very firm rebuke of President Trump. His vision of nationalism, of course, President Trump on the campaign trail just a few weeks ago proudly declared hes a nationalist. And so the message today could not have been more clear. It couldnt have been any stronger coming from macron. I think youre absolutely right, he may be standing, if not alone, among a few here within europe who are really taking that torch forward when it comes to actual multinationalism. The idea of unity when we think about the eu and the United States. So great to have you there live for us in paris. Thanks, rich order. Last night Pete Davidson of saturday night live apologying to dan crenshaw. Davidson had taken some heat over his jokes about crenshaws eye patch he wears. Crenshaw appeared on the show with davidson last night to receive the apology facetoface and then took a moment to poke a little fun at davidson in return. I made a joke with Lieutenant Commander dan crenshaw and on behalf of the show and myself, i apologize. He looks like martin short in the santa claus the movie. By the way, one of these people was actually good on snl. Crenshaw reminded people to thank a veteran this veterans day. When we come back, at least 16 new members of congress are military veterans. One of them, congresswoman elect joins us. Lou rich opportunity is everywhere. Like here. Where you can explore the world knowing you can always find your way home. On this veterans day a wreath laying ceremony held today. Veterans affair secretary Robert Wilkie laid the wreath at the tomb of the unknown. The largest veterans day parade was held down fifth avenue. A Record Number of those elected, they are veterans. With me now, one of those veterans elected to congress, elaine luria, a democrat from virginia and retired navy commander. Representative elect, thank you for being with us and congratulations and thank you for your service as we remember veterans on this veterans day. What do you think has brought so many veterans to congress . We are now believed by nbc estimate around 75, 16 of which are new, you being one of those. Thank you. Thanks for the opportunity to be here today on veterans day. Its a very special occasion, this being the 100th anniversary of thenni ending of world war i. I think theres so many veterans who feel we just cant sit on the sidelines in which wha at i trying political time. I feel its a call to continue to serve in other ways after my 20 years in the navy. I looked at my daughter whos nine. Her first time that shell be able to vote in a president ial election is ten years from now. I didnt want her to ask me then when shes old enough to understand what did you do in these trying political times. I wanted to say that i stepped forward and sought to represent our district and our country better. As you think about veterans and veteran families, what are some of the policy pushes that you would like to make . Well, i think that having people in congress who have served, who have taken the oath to support and defend our constitution, its a very big thing to ask our soldiers and sailors to go into harms way. I think having had that experience myself and being joined by so many other veterans and so many new members of our class that we understand that sacrifice and what were asking people to do. What id like to see Going Forward is i think that we need to look at where were sending our forces around the world. Its congresss job to make that decision about where we send our troops in harms way. I want to be part of that discussion. Much has been said, representative elect, that veterans, they just know how to collaborate better. When you serve, you serve with many different folks. You get the job done. Well, i would agree with that. Over the 20 years, i served on six different ships and deployed as many times. I think back to deployments where i was on an Aircraft Carrier and we were simultaneously launching strikes against terrorist targets into iraq and afghanistan. While were operating eight Nuclear Reactors to send those off, i never turned to the reactor operator and said are you a democrat or republican . I thought about the mission we had to accomplish and everyone was there to do that. Everyone comes from very different backgrounds, from all corners of the country. The ability to come together and take all of those different perspectives and all that diversity and accomplish a mission. Thats what id like to do with the new members in congress. So many of us are veterans and we share that same background. Congresswoman elect elaine luria, thank you again for your service in the military and now your future service there in congress. Good luck when you do start in january. Thank you so much. On this veterans day, one more note about two friends. Both serving in afghanistan, side by side on various missions. Major brent taylor, u. S. Army National Guard and mayor of north ogden utah, his friend Afghan Air Force major of kabul afghanistan. Both friends. One a father of seven. The other a father of five. Last saturday a rogue member of the Afghan Security forces killed brent on base. Brents friend abdul wanted to share his appreciation for u. S. Forces in afghanistan. So abdul wrote to brents widow jennie saying please pass my words to your seven children. Tell them that their father was a loving, caring and compassionate man whose life was not just meaningful. It was inspirational. I am writing this letter to you about a man whom i considered a close friend and whom i dearly loved. He awaked not only americans, but the world to the values of democracy and freedom. Taylors flagdraped coffin arrived back on u. S. Soil on tuesday, election day. His widow jennie spoke at a candle light vigil. The price of freedom surely feels incredible lie high to all of us who know and love our individual soldier. But the value of freedom is immeasurable to all who know and love america and all that she represents. She then shared one of her husbands fine facebook posts about the midterm election. Quote, whether the republicans or the democrats win, i hope that we all remember that we of far more as americans that unites us than divides us. May god forever bless america. Its americas most popular street name. But allstate agents know thats where the similarity stops. If youre on park street in reno, nevada, the high winds of the Washoe Zephyr could damage your siding. And thats very different than living on park ave in sheboygan, wisconsin, where ice dams could cause water damage. 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