criminal investigations, civil inquiries, his party has flown embraced an anti-democrati anti-semitic, and in some case conservative supreme court too away the 50-year-old constitutional right to an abortion we ll get to all of that and more tonight, but we begin a the end of this year, and th historic results for the midterm election democrats gained a seat in the senate, and republicans manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory historically, midterm election have been outright disastrou for a first term president,and the party in power as msnbc political commentator democratic presidents in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 4 house seats in five senate seats. since watergate, the results have looked even worse for the party. democratic presidents in their first midterms have 44 house seats and six senat seats. many political observers o both sides of the aisle were expecting a political bloodbat on the level of, say, 1994 s republican
embraced an anti-democrati anti-semitic, and in some case conservative supreme court too away the 50-year-old constitutional right to an abortion we ll get to all of that and more tonight, but we begin a the end of this year, and th historic results for the midterm election democrats gained a seat in the senate, and republicans manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory historically, midterm election have been outright disastrou for a first term president, an the party in power as msnbc political commentator democratic presidents in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 4 house seats in five senate seats. since watergate, the results have looked even worse for the party. democratic presidents in their first midterms have 44 house seats and six senat seats. many political observers o both sides of the aisle were expecting a political bloodbat on the level of, say, 1994 s republican revolution, for instance when democrats lost 52 house seats an
forward. what do republicans have to say? the republicans offered a bit of a muted response. many not defending donald trump s actions, not yet criticizing what the justice department is doing, taking a wait and see approach. one of those republicans, lindsey graham of south carolina, who told me earlier today that he does not think that trump should be prosecuted. that s just ridiculous for me to comment over what some grand jury may be looking at. i don t see anything to prosecute him over. now, graham himself has come under scrutiny for phone calls he made to the georgia secretary of state in the aftermath of the november 2020 elections. the georgia prosecutor looking into donald trump s actions, has asked for graham to come before the grand jury and testify there. graham himself has said that he will not do that, he s trying to fight that subpoena. nevertheless, you re hearing some defense from republicans but most are saying they re going to take a wait and see a
and now the question, who got to see the documents? plus, the shocking admission in the breonna taylor case. the former police detective admits she misled the judge to barge into taylor s home. the no-knock warrant that ended her life. as the 11th hour gets underway on the tuesday night. good evening, once again, i am alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. with just 77 days that goes until the midterm elections, this is a big primary night in new york and florida. the polls closed a few hours ago in both states. nbc news projects that former governor and congressman charlie crist easily won a democratic primary for governor. he will take on ron desantis in november. in new york congressman jarred nadler is projected to win the new 12 congressional district. among the candidates he defeated was his fellow incumbent carolyn maloney, we are also following the latest developments in the trump classified documents controversy. we will have more on that ahead. first, the results a
which do you think is unravelling faster? the biden white house or the january 6th committee? for over a year, democrats suggested that congressional republicans had led groups of visitors on so-called recon missions on the capitol on january 5th, 2021. remember that? the implication was obvious that republicans, elected officials, were in on the plot. they were insurrectionist themselves, the smear all began just one week after january 6th. i was really shocked when i got into the house office building and saw these groups inside. there would be no tours allowed, even tours given by members. and so the only reason you d have a visitor is on official business. so to see these groups around the capitol complication was really striking. laura: okay, that mikey cheryl needs to be thrown out of office. new jersey, save yourself. the charge then gained momentum around one particular congressman, georgia s barry louder milk. what we re lettering about laweder milk is he was