state-wide. no question. the rev made, a point, take it to you jen. in your previous job a lot of worries about senator manchin and sinema, and in our everything. with 51 votes, talk how it changes dynamic in washington. spoked a lot how historic midpsych crewal. lost the house only by a few seats. talk ho that will change? a major pain in the neck to have a 50/50 split sitting in the white house. sitting in the white house today and talked to a number of them last night, a big difference between 51 and 50, to the reverend s point. not just because you have committee control. right now it s split on committees. right? republicans can use procedural shenanigans to delay things. prevent things from moving forward, prevent nominees from moving forward. there already on track to have a
here it is given the incoherences as campaign speeches i was struck by herschel s moving concession speech. it was beautiful, and in its simplicity. no excuses. walker showed grace and a reaffirmation of american values showing victory in defeat and that is especially true at this time of election denying. but let s talk about the race as a whole. this was incredible. this runoff election, willie. yeah. right over to steve kornacki and see how senator warnock did it. nbc news be political correspondent. steve, a lot to look at here. look at the rural counties also certainly the atlanta suburbs decisive for senator warnock? that s the headline in terms how did he end up winning it? warnock by nearly three points. remember in the preliminary back in november warnock finished in first ahead of walker. the margin a little under one point. warnock expands his margin over walker to nearly three points in
here? is there a dynamic shift? and let s talk more about volodymyr zelenskyy in light of the historic day that we are marking? these strikes are, in fact, quite significant in two ways. one, symbolically. here are the ukrainians quite clearly reaching out and touching russian long-range air which has just been pummeling the people of ukraine, going after electric grid, the water plants. clear war crimes. so the ukrainians are striking out. that s symbolic, but secondly, to the point you made in the readout, these show that the air defenses are vulnerable. that s quite significant, and final thought here. go back to world war ii. right after pearl harbor, the united states mounted an attack on tokyo. jimmy doolittle s raid from aircraft carriers showing the
that pervaded midterms. what does the republican party do with this? jonathan lemire go back to steve, the bigger broader look at this trump brought them losses. four elections at this point and, wow, massive loss for trump republicans. this was a time everybody said joe biden was a weight on the party smop he even stand next to candidates. no. it was trump who shown stand next to the candidates, and yet he picked them. he picked them, and except for i think j.d. vance, correct me if i m wrong here, trump s picks lost georgia, arizona, pennsylvania, new hampshire, am i missing anything? governor s races. the governor s races. jonathan lemire, the writing is on the wall. yeah. the republican party gave the keys to donald trump a few years ago and at least this cycle he s
grandkids, apartments and others said this is the kind of stuff companies do. give perks to executives. does this go beyond allen weisselberg, though, to your point a minute ago? could this extend? the reach get further? absolutely does. weisselberg walked a really fine line even a state witness, he testified for the prosecution. he basically said that this was an insulated, you know, scheme of his own. trump organization pushed back on that saying that, you know, how could that possibly be true and prosecutors in closing arguments actually said that trump did sanction some of this conduct. now, bragg said last night sanctions the conduct is different from actually moving forward with what you would need for a criminal indictment. however, i think it s very, very interesting that prosecutors brought up trump in their closing arguments again. it portends, perhaps they re sort of looking to the future. can i ask, how do you think