the alex wagner joins us now. it s just alex wagner. we ve been doing this for a several months. alex wagner tonight. we ve known each other for two decades, you can call me whatever you want. thank you at home for joining us on alex wagner tonight this hour. we have a whole lot to get to this evening. we start with election results. i know! you thought the elections were over. but, nope, they are not. as voters in this the commonwealth of virginia well know, there was a special election yesterday for a state senate seat in virginia beach. we now have a projected oner in that race, democrat aaron rouse. he defeated kevin adams, flipping that state senate seat from red to blue and he did it running ads like this. you want to believe it can t happen here. but it could happen sooner than you think. republicans in richmond are trying to pass a new ban on abortion in virginia and kevin adams wants to join them. he wants to take away our personal decisions. kevin adams
absolutely right the president and talk about the on going investments in electric vehicles. we ve seen the president touring the floor getting a sense of the cars that are out and even driving an electric cadillac, wanting to use the remarks when he takes the stage again behind me in a few minutes to talk to the important work and the focus that the administration has had on electric vehicles. now, one of the announcements that we do expect to hear from the president is a new $900 million investment in building electric vehicle charges stations across the country across some 35 states including here in the state of michigan. now, of course, no need to emphasize that this is obviously a very important battle ground state so this is an opportunity for the president, too, to meet with local elected official leaders, union leaders and talk to the folks on the ground and again, this is an issue where he could really talk about a couple legislative victories for democrats includin
the man who was bin laden s number two in al-qaeda, the man who took over as al-qaeda s leader after bin laden was killed by u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s. the string of attacks and murders attributed to ayman al-zawahiri is stomach turning. he was the ideological mastermind behind the term of al-qaeda and groups like that towards indiscriminate mass murder of civilians anywhere including muslims all in the name of islamic piety. and how he got there now looking back at it seemed like a straight shot, but if you sort of dropped in on him at any time in his biography you wouldn t have known he was going there. by the time he was 15 years old he was a committed radical who wanted to try to impose islamic theocracy by force. he formed his first terrorist cell when he was all of 15 years old. when islamic militants did assassinate egypt s president at a military parade in 1991 ayman al-zawahiri was one of hundreds islamic radicals tried and imprisoned for that crime. he was tortured for ye
zawhahiri is stomach churning.ch he was the ideological master behind behind the turn of al qaeda andnd groups like that toward indiscriminate mass murder of civilians anywhere, including muslims, all in the name of islamic piety and how he got there, we now, looking back at it, it seems like a straight shot, but if he dropped in at any time of his biography, you wouldn t have known, trained as a doctor, as a surgeon, a respected family in egypt, born and raised in cairo. by the time he was 15 years old he was a committed radical who wantedic to impose islamic theecacy by force all of 15 yearsfo old. when islamic militant disassassinate egypt s president anwar sadat at a military parade in 1981, he was one of hundreds ofe islamic radicals who was tried and imprisoned and tortured for years in egyptian prisons. while there he became an informant, supplying information on hisin comrades, and released fromra prison in egypt in 1948 d even more radical than when he had gone in an