In florida, a little victory for stacey abrams. A federal judge ordering officials to review all officials ballots and wait until friday to certify election results. The democrats are hoping for a recount or maybe a runoff thats still too close to call. This is arguably the biggest news of all, arizona sending its first woman to the United States senate, its first democrat in 30 years. Nbc news calling it overnight, Kirsten Sinema defeating martha mcsally. I just called Kirsten Sinema and congratulating her on becoming arizonas first female senator after a hard fought battle. I wish her all the success as she represents arizona in the senate. Senator mccain said, but we have always had so much more in common with each other than in disagreement. It wont be easy and it wont happen overnight. But we can Work Together to meet the challenges our country faces. Nbcs Steve Kornacki is here to break down that historic race for us. Steve, how did arizona end up electing a democrat . Yeah look,
there because they are career servants who explain the law and explain national security matters to the president of the united states and to the american people. i think they re being sidelined through the boss. corey lewandowski said maybe pam bondi in florida could potentially replace kirsten nielsen. another, cris kobach. the job security is not great in the cabinet. more extreme, more hard line than nielsen was. to some extent it s about how loyal you can be to the president and not how hard core. what the president seems to want is an individual who s going to sideline the career employees and sideline the facts and the law toward a border security policy that s more aggressive and without much thought. if kirsten nelson leaves, ends up departing or getting fired or resigning or however you want to phrase it by the end of the year, katherine, there will only be four women left at
remarks on forced rape but refusing to do the disappearing act the republican party is so desperate for. we learned he will give into the pressure by not attending the convention next week, but even if akin is not there, for paul ryan there s no hiding his policy connections with akin. it only got worse when he talked to reporters. his statements were outrageous, over the pale. i don t know anybody that would agree with that. rape is rape. you sponsored language forcible rape. rape is rape period. that forcible rape language meant nothing to you at the time? rape is rape, and there s no splitting hairs over rape. rape is rape, and there s no splitting heiairs over rape. that is no way mr. ryan s record shows. last year he co-sponsored the no taxpayer funding for abortion act. the original wording of that bill said that an abortion could be paid for by federal dollars if the pregnancy occurred because the pregnant female was the forced subject of an act of forcible
refusing to do the disappearing act the republican party is so desperate for. we learned he will give into the pressure by not attending the convention next week, but even if akin is not there, for paul ryan there s no hiding his policy connections with akin. it only got worse when he talked to reporters. his statements were outrageous, over the pale. i don t know anybody that would agree with that. rape is rape. you sponsored language forcible rape. rape is rape period. that forcible rape language meant nothing to you at the time? rape is rape, and there s no splitting hairs over rape. rape is rape, and there s no splitting heiairs over rape. that is no way mr. ryan s record shows. last year he co-sponsored the no taxpayer funding for abortion act. the original wording of that bill said that an abortion could be paid for by federal dollars if the pregnancy occurred because the pregnant female was the forced subject of an act of forcible rape. not just rape but fo