Good morning, and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie cy. The 2013 election brought major surprises, but for avid political watchers and the offyear voting was a tasty appetizer for the main courses to come, next years midterms and the race for the white house two years later. Voters picked new leaders in cities and states across the country. Most of the National Focus was on new jersey and virginia, where governors were chosen. New jersey incumbent Chris Christie was reelected in a landslide. Hes viewed as a Top Republican challenger to Hillary Clinton in a potential 2016 president ial matchup. In virginia a powerful clinton ally, Terry Mcauliffe narrowly beat republican ken cuccinelli. Virginia has been a battleground state in the last two elections. New york city elected its first democratic mayor in more than two decades, bill de blasio. In detroit mike dugan is the citys first white mayor in 40 years. Al jazeera has all the election details. In a race widely seen as a refe
Good monday afternoon from the news deck. More mudslinging in the g. O. P. As the candidates set their sites on nevada. Including one campaign smearing a rival by suggesting he was caught trashing the bible. Ted cruzs communication director link tweeted a link to an article witha video of of rube rube. Marco rubio. The audio us not clear but there are subtitles and they quote rubio has telling somebody he wont find any answers in the holy book. Rubio aides said he actually said all the answerser in the bible. Enough the cruz staffer is apologizing. I posted in haste. I should not have done it. Its apologized to marco rubio and the campaign, and posted that on my facebook and shared it on twitter and im saying it here. It was a mistake and i would not knowingly post something i knew to be false. But you cant put toothpaste back in tube. Today marco rubio blast the Cruz Campaign and said he was actually praising the bike. Talk about the va, where people who arent doing their job need to
Demensia. David cassidy was only 67yearsol 67yearsold. Did you watch . Yes, i did. They were like the monkeys. Nobody realizes, David Cassidy was massive, massive reporting star and showing up at the houston astrodome at the time nobody did it. Huge, massively successful. As you say no love from the critics. I will say in your high school, too the number of guys. I went to a girls school. A local girl school, the number of guys with puca shell necklace because of David Cassidy, along with these songs, brought to the fullture. The brady bunch and the Partridge Family were passive my brother loves puca shells. Do you remember andy gibb . Slightly later. Only slightly. Im 50. Good morning, everyone, its wednesday, november 22nd. We have political commentator susan dell persio, back with stories to tell. More work you have been doing there, nbc news, capitol hill correspondent and host of casey d. C. , cmon, guys. Laser rock i bet she has a puca shell necklace. She will have a tribute on a
Onceinageneration opportunity to deliver real tax reform for everyday hardworking americans. Inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. Welcome to inside politics. Im john king. Toll our viewers in the United States and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. It is a moment of high consequence here in washington. A confidant of President Trump pleads guilty in the russia meddling investigation. Says he is cooperating with the special counsel. And suggests several others still in senior white house jobs knew of his improper dealings with russia. This acknowledgement of criminal guilt is a shattering moment for the trump presidency. We have a moment, similar to watergate, where the question is going to be, what did they know and when did they know it . Not just the president , but Jared Kushner and michael pence, the Vice President. That thickening cloud of investigation comes at what should be a moment of celebration. Senate republicans passed a
The president. Pa he thinks that is all about. Welcome to fox news at night. We begin with mike pompeos appearance on capitol hill, lawmakers from both parties expressing frustration with and lack of information about the summits. Late today his top diplomat tried to reassure them, mike emanuel has this report from capitol hill. I made clear there will be severe consequences for interference in our democratic process. Reporter he has been firm with moscow saying sanctions wont be eased. No relief of sanctions and so russia returns control of crimea to ukraine. Reporter t . The Foreign Relations chairman put pompeo in an awkward spot by criticizing Donald Trumps behavior. What is it because the president purposely to create distrust in the institutions . The administrations activities from the president s actions. They are one and the same. I noticed you are not responding to what i am saying. There were testy moments with new jersey senator bob menendez on the trump Vladimir Putin summ