virginia now is on these culture war issues. on the pandemic stuff. on the feeling that parents are being frozen out of the process. and glenn youngkin has figured out a way to talk to those swinging moderate independent voters that joe biden said he cared about, that won him the election. that terry mcauliffe, who is basically a vas sell of the clinton machine should have figured out how to talk. to say instead that s why it s a close race. bret: last thing, quickly. foreprogressives, and you talked to them up on capitol hill whether it s bernie sanders or any of the house progressives. they feel like they re always charlie brown and lucy the football with taking it away at the last minute. but they haven t, you know, they didn t win the election on those progressive items. joe biden won almost plays against those items in the democratic primary and in the general election could do they really expect these big things are going to happen with slim
a group of officers turned their backs on mayor lori lightfoot when she went to the hospital where one of the officers was in critical condition. despite her strong statements in support of the police this weekend some say it s too little too late. the mayor is a hypocrite. she has never once stood in solidarity with those brave men and women like ella and her partner who are trying to do the best that they could during these difficult times. as for that second officer who was shot three times, we are told that he is slowly improving but he is expected to have a very long road ahead of him. dana: garrett tenney in chicago. thank you. bill: the white house not on the same page on fellow democrats like masking. police funding and immigration. so how then will voters react to their mixed messaging at the box in 2022? democrats are trying to hold onto slim majorities, remember, in both the house and the
several democrats are urging the white house to move on and poiden s top aides are warning that the window for talks is closing. you know, it s there for the taking. it s just a question of whether he can whether mitch mcconnell will allow it and we ll have ten republican senators willing to invest news. ultimately we cannot sit and negotiate forever. reporter: in tulsa on monday president biden called for june to be a month of action on capitol hill and blamed the gridlock on slim majorities. i hear all the folks on tv saying why doesn t biden get this done? well, because biden only has had a majority of effectively four votes in the house and a tie in the senate with two members of the senate who vote more with my republican friends. reporter: it s not true that the moderate democrats he referenced senator joe manchin and certain sinema vote with republicans more often than they do with democrats but the white house wasn t criticizing the moderate wing of his own party.
happening in kentucky yet. john king says 99% of the vote is in. we re going to wait, wait on the secretary of state. we re reaching out to the secretary of state there, alison lund gren grimes because, you know, secretaries of state are in charge of officiating the election. what does she say about how many votes she s waiting on? we re reaching out. if she gets to us, i ll bring her to you. what we can tell you right now is virginia can be called. the state senate has gone democrat. the governorship is democrat, ralph northam. now it s about the house. the republicans have been in control for a while. slim majorities, but they ve had them. and the big key here is, yes, there will be projections into what this means for the national picture but i ve got something for you on that in a second. but what it means specifically that does have national implications but we never really talk about it is that you get to
we saw what happened with obamacare when it passed with what? one vote. slim majorities don t make for great pieces of legislation. people ought to have buy in on both sides. i think we could be seeing the beginning of the end of that. obamacare passed with no republican support only democrats. but the democrats had the mar t majority in the house. republicans will potentially look back at this vote today and say that was a mistake. like democrats look back at harry reed s action in 2013 and say that was a mistake. that was a mistake. one says that over and over again. chuck schumer. thanks very, very much. coming up. take a look at. this we ve got some live pictures of the chinese president, xi jinping expected to arrive in florida down in west palm beach. later today set to meet with president trump. a known china critic. these two world leaders get ready to have dinner at mar-a-lago in palm beach later