A recap of the days news. Its always the same counties. In other places, its ohio. Theyre pretty good at it. Were at 66 here, the early votes came in, this was blue at first, now its gone, back to its dna. If you look at any map in america. Heres the city, out here is red, and look at the margins, 70 . 67 . You move away from the cities, youre in republican country. You come down to the suburbs the republican incumbent won this race. Danny oconnor has done what he needs to do. As you move a little more away, affluent republicans here some of them like trump, some like the tax cut. This is now your tug of war in Todays Republican Party playing out in an affluent suburban county here. Is winning that by 53 enough. Its not necessarily a fair comparison, because its a not only did he win by 11 points. We should underscore this is a district that has not had a democratic representative in almost 40 years, before you were born, don. I wish. It really is remarkable. And the answer to why its
And say if you are in our country illegally, a single crime is too many. Talk about adding outrage to insults. Already breaking our laws, and then committing crimes. And there are an awful lot of crimes committed by people here illegally, and by noncitizens more broadly. The u. S. Sentencing Commission Says 44 of all federal inmates are noncitizens. Thats a huge number. Why wouldnt we be upset by that . Yeah, so, that federal data is only for federal prisoners, as you probably know. Tucker thats right. Federal prisoners account for fewer than 10 of all prisoners in the United States, and thats not representative of other crimes. Ill give you an example in 2016, almost 18,000 Homicide Convictions in the United States, but only 85 through the federal court because they simply dont prosecute homicide. So if you want to take a look nationwide at convictions and incarcerations of people by Immigration Status, thats a much better way to do it. Tucker well, you cant. No. It would be. Hold on,
A look at the latest news and headlines of the day features discussions of politics and culture, analysis of Political Correctness in Campus Craziness and. A look at the latest news and headlines of the day features discussions of politics and culture, analysis of Political Correctness in Campus Craziness and. Identity i certainly havent because i would be punished for it. A lot of people are punished for identity theft. What are you talking about . Tucker more than 10 Million People are living and working in this country using fake federal identification. They are not punished for that. You dont think they should be punished for it. I would be punished if i did it. Do you see the Double Standard . You defend the rights of people who arent even citizens and actual citizens like me would go to jail for it. I dont think that nativeborn americans or foreignborn people should have to prove and ask the government for permission by showing a piece of paper to get a job. Thats not what this c
hamas in gaza. i can t thank you enough for making time for us. we re all thinking about you and your family. thank you very much. and we pray for the safe return of all of the hostages as soon as possible. this is a humanitarian issue. this is not some political issue, and people trying to make this a political issue, especially, the government trying to make this political. no, this is a humanitarian crisis. and everything should be done to get them back as soon as possible. thank you very much. that is all in on this wednesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. 250 days, just unbelievable this is where we are. thank you, my friend, as always. so i want to start with a story that in any other universe would have absolutely nothing to do with politics or anything even approximating controversy. the kind of news we all used to read or hear and accept. but in the post-trump era, this kind of news has become a sort of conservative litmus te
reporter: as we re looking out across the bay, you see number 72, that is the u.s.s. abraham lincoln. talking about preparation, the u.s. navy has sent out ten ships from the third fleet just to min minimize ship overcrowding. this is the wettest weather event since 1873. a bullet dodged, victor and poppy. victor, very sorry, it s before the crack of dawn. we will certainly wait until the sun comes up to assess the rest of the damage. it seems as though our friends in the desert communities have faced the brunt of the storm and have the worst of the damage. thank you, josh. i m kidding.