officials can t be electors? i don t know, we will double checked that and i will tweak it out. in the meantime, we showed there in my piece, congresswoman alexandria acadia court has a showing a rule area on the plane saying, this is what the electoral college is, all these people out here, a conservative responded to that , dear aoc, do you really think it ll america will appreciate you mocking their rule life quest market is the only thing protecting them from being controlled by you and if you fat keep poop and rats off their streets. the electoral college was designed to make sure that was not a mob rule, so a few major cities couldn t control it all, but having just the electoral votes of a small area of iowa, that is not going to win either presidency. he still have to win the californias, texas, stuff like
watch, ocasio-cortez knows better shoes woke, so she knows that the electoral college is, wait for it now. racist. she accuses the electoral college of having a . the daily briefing with dana perino, one of our favorite guests. thanks for coming on. very quick question as someone who has followed american politics for many years. is the electoral college racist? dana: it s such a disservice to the institution, . it s bad for civics education. think of how many people follow her on instagram and think, oh, yeah. to the electoral college is racist. because she drives through a rule area of the united states,
where you re counted when incarcerated. a rule area, then it actually penalizes our communities where the people come back to. all right. congresswoman from california, karen bass. when i visit you, the cheerleader, they say. thank you for being with us. thanks for having me on. this week, 50 years since mankind set foot on the moon. up next, we ll talk with one of the first black astronauts about how that feat defined the future of space travel and how demographic make-up of the agency has changed since that momentous day in 1969. you re watching politics nation. you re watching politics nation. i m alex trebek here to tell you
they think is in the lead. because the polls are all over the place. well, we can tell you about today though. definitively. is that today is an extraordinarily important day. it is the first day of early voting. 60 percent of the vote in nevada takes place in early voting. so essentially election day has already begun. it begins today. that s why you re seeing all of these heavyweights come in and this tale of competing rallies. what we will be seeing here at the top of the hour in elco, nevada, this is a rule area. the president will be touching down here just to the left of me. he ll be taking to the stage and he ll be telling rural nevada it is important to come out for senator dean heller. he is a republican. the only republican who is running in this midterm in a state that trump lost in 2016. so the president rallying the rurals. if he can get the rural vote out, then the gop is optimistic they can hold this senate seat
the senior staff member if aid workers can be trusted. that it is dave s here with the winter olympics and pianka chan will have the latest action including seventeen year old graduate who argue that it will win in the men s slopestyle the first goal for the u.s. . plan . and sarah holland broken is a show it s good to have you with us. or russian passenger plane operated by summer tall the airline says crashed else live moscow sixty five passengers and six crew members were on board the plane when it went missing from radar after taking off when moscow airport the plane went down in a rule area near the city s outskirts all seventy one people on board feared to have been killed. let s cross now to our moscow correspondent emily sure when she s on the story for us emily what more can you tell us about this crash