Soledad do you see that as part of your role, if youre a very visible and successful black chef . Announcer can he change the face of fine dining . Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. 2020 is just around the corner. But before you change your calendar, we wanted to look back at some of the important stories we covered this year, including a recordbreaking year in politics. When the 116th congress was sworn in, it became the most diverse in u. S. History. It includes the first native american women to be elected to the house of representatives. Deb haaland from new mexico and Sharice Davids from kansas promised to tackle the epidemic of violence against Indigenous Women. Native american women have a murder rate 10 times higher than nonnative women. We spotlighted the crisis earlier this year and found native women are disappearing without a trace, leaving their families without hope or justice. Ive been having a lot of friends that have gone missing and never found. So
Holding a weapon i just booked it down the lane, and i slid basically to where the pins are and climed up into the machine and was on top of the machine for about ten minutes until cops got there. I was in there about ten minutes. That was a survivor of the deadly shooting last night in maine. Its the latest Mass Casualty Event caused by gun violence to impact our nation. Im sam stein in for Jonathan Lemire here on Way Too Early. Its thursday, october 26th. Thats where we begin this morning with at least 15 people dead and up to 50 who may be injured in the community of lewiston. North of portland. 30 miles police say the Gunmannted Two locations wednesday nig. First was a Bowling Alley where he fatally shot seven people before moving onto a nearby bar. Some of the victims may have been injured in stampedes as crowds raced to escape as the shooting started. Officials fear that many teenagers could be among those killed or injured as the Bowling Alley was hosting its youth night yesterd
School. She went on to become the head of the Democratic Party in the great state of new mexico. While she was head of the Democratic Party in that state, she helped flip that state to democratic control in the legislature. Deb haaland ran for congress herself in 2018. She was able to run as, in her words, a 35th generation new mexican. 35 generations of her family. She won that race. She and Sharice Davids from kansas became the first two native american women ever elected to congress, both elected in the same year. Deb haaland has been a very highprofile and sort of instantly Effective Member of Congress Since she got there. She was vice chair of the Natural Resources committee as a freshman. She was chair of the subcommittee on public lands. Now as interior secretary in the Biden Administration, deb haaland will be in charge of public lands federally as well as in charge of all the agencies that the the federal agencies that exert so much almost unimaginable amounts of power over th
Civic sense institution, who should it be . Im going to noodle on that. Thats exactly right. You get bonus points if you figure out who it should be not just for bringing it back to its former glory but also for adding Postal Service banking to the list of things that happened at the Postal Service. If you can come up with that, you win a free tv show. All right, my friend. Im on it. All right. Well done. Nobody better. If anybody can come up with that, it is chris hayes. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Really happy to have you here this thursday night. For the first time ever, which is almost unbelievable, but its true. For the first time ever, a native american is going to be a cabinet secretary in the United States. Deb hollands mother was a navy veteran, a native american woman, a citizen of the na gu na fa web low. Her father was a norwegian american and an active duty marine. Deb holland went to 13 different Public Schools before graduating from high school. She p
Blumenthal and congresswoman Maxine Waters. And how we ended up in the crisis with democracy. Thats enough, put down the mic. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. We have now entered a dramatic new chapter in the story of the presidency of donald trump. Two absolutely huge developments tonight, first, there will soon finally be a check on the power of this preponderate, a decisive electoral victory, a party reclaiming real power after two years in the political wilderness. Then today the president immediately moving the nation towards constitutional crisis by firing his attorney general in what appears to be the first step in an effort to kill or throttle the Mueller Investigation into him and his associates. At this hour democrats have already gained 28 seats in the house, four more than they needed to control the chamber. It could potentially go as high as 42 seats when they take power in january. Overall last night it was a dramatic national repu