joining me now, joy reid, host ofid am joy, tiffany cross, former naacp ben jealous and founder for center the for politics of virginia, larry sabato. joy,y you ve been talking abou this for the last hour since we got this pushbacking whether he is in the picture. what do you make of this reporting? it is a bizarre turn because ralph northam has a couple of problems. one of them is named justin fairfax who is the very popular lieutenant governor of virginia. he underperformed northam by only about 1 percentage point. he got about 52.7% of the vote. he is a very viable option to run for governor in his own right which he could do as an incumbent and as the lone african-american governor in the u.s. if northam were to step aside. normham could do himself some
this is all showmanship on capitol hill. that was ridiculous. i watched the whole thing today. laura: richard, the dow is up 30% since the election. s&p up 33%. nasdaq up 52.7%. don t you wish you bought the futures? winning. as regards weakness, to say a former fbi, former kgb head, putin, gets more deference than our intelligence community, that s weak. sorry. that s not protecting weakness. that s inviting people corrupt governments to take a run at us. i m sorry. laura: do you know what the size of the russian economy is? it is 30f. laura: you are worked up on it like he s wearing underwear with a hammer and sickle on it. he wants to get along with russia because he things we re going to get something for israel, in syria, in north korea
and you know, this is all showmanship up on capitol hill. that was ridiculous. i watched the whole thing today. laura: richard, the dow is up 38% since the election. s&p up 33%. nasdaq up 52.7%. don t you wish you bought the futures? winning. as regards weakness, to say a former fbi, former kgb head, putin, gets more deference than our intelligence community, that s weak. sorry. that not projecting weakness, that s inviting people that s inviting other corrupt governments to take a run at us. i m sorry. laura: do you know what the size of the russian economy is? it s 30th in the world. laura: you are worked up on it like he s wearing underwear with a hammer and sickle on it. he wants to get along with russia because he things we re going to get something for israel, in syria, in north korea and we need russia s help to triangulate against china.
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