i think what senator manchin has to realize is the same thing that everybody over on this side of the building has realized sometime ago. there are going to be pieces of this bill that we would prefer were bigger and bolder. there may be elements of it that i don t like. this is compromise. this is the way we do business. and the sooner that everybody, particularly in the democratic caucus, comes to the conclusion that we captain let perfect be the enemy of the good, then we re going to be able to move forward. and i hope he takes that position. congressman dan kildee, thank you for being back on the show and for your patience as we juggled? live developments here on msnbc. thanks again, congressman. we re going to hear from president biden any minute. so stay with us. we re monitoring that. and as he talks about covid vaccination for kids, so are we. we re actually talking to the mom of this 8-year-old you are about to see, one of the first little kids to get vaxed now that the cdc
notable, hallie, because just 24 hours ago the president was the one who was trying to strike very optimistic tones on the outcomes of these races, both in virginia and new jersey. he predicted a victory in virginia, which clearly did not happen. but late last night when he returned from europe, he was met with plenty of reporter questions. he ignored all of those in the moment, but we are going to hear from him on the topic of covid vaccinations for children ages 5 to 11. so, of course, we will be pressing him on that. and afterwards hope he does take some questions. it s traditional for presidents after these kinds of election days to do a little bit of a postmortem, give their own reaction and assessment and we just haven t gotten that so far yet today. either from the president or from any of his top aides who have been here huddling behind closed doors in meetings, really trying to determine what the messaging is going to be. but i ve been talking to democrats close to the white h
sheriffs and police around the state and the defund the police effort has been a big failure. and i think you ve heard eric adams today talk very centrist public safety type of discussions and i think people in new york, regardless whether you re democrat or republican, is going to feel much safer when he is in charge instead of de blasio who was obviously very unpopular. former congresswoman barbara comstock, again from virginia, knows that state well. thank you so much for being with us this afternoon. we appreciate it. thank you. we re going to talk more about what all this means for democrats and their agenda moving forward later in the show with a current member of congress. we are also waiting to hear from the occupant of this building, president biden is set to speak. we re going to bring his remarks live. plus breaking news from the pentagon. officials sharing more about what went wrong in that cobbled strike on isis terrorists that instead killed ten civilians. all of
and that seemed to work for him obviously if you look at the results. well, i think what happened is a year ago democrats really misread what their mandate was. biden won because he wasn t trump, and people rejected him. people like me, anti-trump republicans, i didn t vote for trump, i voted for republicans down ballot. we saw that in arizona and georgia, for example, where we won the state legislatures, but then we lost at the top because of trump. so what glenn did is he decided he s going to be his own man and he is his own man and he ran his own race. and yesterday s voters were youngkin voters and he put together a coalition where he did even better than trump did with base voters and rural voters, and then he also improved a lot in the suburbs where the anti-trump republicans where trump was very toxic did warm to somebody like glenn who is very competent. while you re seeing incompetence in washington. he s a decent nice person.
too great for democrats. this afternoon what the path forward looks like for the party after losses in virginia and beyond. sources telling nbc news the internal blame game is real. city lawmakers reeling, pushing for something concrete to take home to voters with developments coming in on that social safety net package floating around the house, which just got put back into that bill and whether that makes it easier or harder to pass. we are here juggling a lot of pieces of news on this afternoon. i m hallie jackson in washington along with our nbc news team, msnbc national political correspondent steve kornacki as mentioned, posted up at the big board. political editor mark murray is here with the key take aways, what this means politically going forward for democrats. new reaction from both sides of pennsylvania avenue, lyanne caldwell is on capitol hill looks like in a basement. monica alba is at the white house. we just learned we expect to hear from president biden himself, possi