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
it s kind of pro marco bowl the judge basically saying, the should be in the hands of the people, so let s get it into the hands of the people, let s get it on to the docket or at least on the ballot for november. this is a difficult situation in michigan, because while it does allow for exceptions for the health, the life of the pregnant mother, doctors i ve spoken with have said, even that s not clear what that means. the doctor may say this is a dangerous pregnancy that should be terminated, but in a state where you have government attorneys looking to make an example out of someone, even that is not clear to drop the doctors, and that s gonna prevent women from getting the help they need, it will prevent woman who are miscarrying to get the help they need, and it will prevent doctors from acting because it s a felony. because this is one of the most important things to happen on november 8th. and hands off to gretchen lippman or, for saying we have to do something preem
spoken with have said, even that s not clear what that means. the doctor may say this is a dangerous pregnancy that should be terminated, but in a state where you have government attorneys looking to make an example out of someone, even that is not clear to drop the doctors, and that s gonna prevent women from getting the help they need, it will prevent woman who are miscarrying to get the help they need, and it will prevent doctors from acting because it s a felony. because this is one of the most important things to happen on november 8th. and hands off to gretchen lippman or, for saying we have to do something preemptively about this. we will watch that one we will watch a lot of things on november 8th, but that one i will be paying attention. to alex, get some rest. you ve earned it, you deserve it. we ll see you next week. thanks, ali. have a great. so donald trump is using the fbi search of his florida property to appeal to his extremist supporters and bring r
threatens the very foundations of our republic. maga republicans do not respect the constitution. maga republicans, extreme maga republicans and extreme ideology, maga republicans. maga are determined to take this country backwards. the maga republican blade for them to succeed everyone else has to fail. maga republicans see carnage and darkness and despair. speed to the white house since the address says it is not political and blasting the president over the tongue calling it dark and divisive. it wasn t just the words, some noted the red black blood drop. the republicans have been tearing into biden s speech. speak with a strange and wildly inappropriate setting that unusual weird red lighting is much worse than marines standing behind him engaging in political attacks on 74 million americans. speak with the assault on the soul of america. speak with the political speech, it was a divisive speech and that s presidential. very cynical to fill our heads with stupid. je
one of the revelations in this wide-ranging report on the uvalde massacre. it describes widespread failures, egregious poor decision-making that resulted in more than an hour of chaos in the, quote, lackadaisical approach by those sent to help. the report states law enforcement failed to prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety and failed to adhere to active shooter training. the police chief failed to assume his responsibility of incident command, the report says. the report says the robb elementary school lockdown was likely delayed by poor wifi connectivity. and the school also had reoccurring problems with maintaining its doors and locks, those are just a few of the revelationes in this report. and uvalde s mayor is releasing dramatic new video showing the first moments that officers arrived on the scene there at the school. shots fired. get inside. go. go. go. the new body camera footage gives a close up view of the action, but mainly the inaction, as