and yet the lgbtq community remains under attack. i m joined right now by jayson johnson, politics editor at theroot.com and yamiche alcindor, with the pbs news hour. i liked it. maybe because i like southern liberals. simpler than the northern liberals. they re too complicated up north. i liked the fact it was so basic and optimistic and happy, even. happy liberal. patriotic liberal. i wish the president would not fall. he s probably going to fail but i don t want him to fail. it was nuanced and i thought perfect. your thoughts? it was nuanced, but the optics were so striking here. you have president delivering the speech in the house chamber, women in all white showing the diversity of the democratic party. on the other side this largely white older male population that is the republican party. then you have stacey abrams, the first african-american woman to
really just to drive people who haven t been voting in special elections to actually vote because democrats have been excited to vote. and the reality of the last, the next really 72 hours is we have a lot of house incumbent republicans who are not at 50%. there s like 40, 45 of those who are not at 50% in public pollings. that s usually a bad sign. i think a lot of democrats are well funded. the most important thing is to get out the vote. now it s really about turning out voters in a midterm that is harder than a presidential, so spending the next couple of days trying to get people to vote is what i think all of these candidates are focussed on. neera, jayson johnson, david jolly, thank you for starting us out tonight. appreciate it. when we come back, captain sully sullenberger says he feels an obligation to become a defender of democracy. captain sullenberger will join us next. ain sullenberger will jn us next. when the moon hits your eye
sometimes i wrote off my own failings as another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. i had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing, but one of the things that all of you have learned over the last four years is there is no longer any room for excuses. so let s talk about the president s speech. i am joined now by jayson johnson a chief political cornert for politics 365. he has a visiting faculty appointment at morehouse. welcome. good morning. you don t often hear the president talk like this, do you? no, you don t. eoccasionally goes into his more personal community with the black community when he talks with the naacp. i didn t think afc a particularly impressive speech. he did try to connect with the audience more. that s something rare. we don t see that from barack obama. i wondered if the president decide on themes because of some
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