rescue crews can get on the ground. john, the video from the bahamas, from abacos island is just shock. there s not a single patch of land there that seems it s survived. homes are ruined, cars are ruined and of course you ve heard these heart breaking stories of people who have lost their lives. and what patrick oppmann was saying where he was, he doesn t think the death toll has been counted there yet. so we re waiting for crews to get there today and give us a real assessment of the damage that s happened there in the bahamas and of course you re the lucky one. even we re seeing you in the thick of it there, people in daytona beach are the lucky ones, and we re being told by all the watchers in charleston, south carolina, things are looking more dangerous this hour. we ll keep everybody focused on all of that. we do have some other breaking news. because there s been this raucous scene inside the british
capita what we are spending. when senator sanders says that canada is single payer, there are 35 million people in canada. there are 330 million people in the united states, easily the number of people on a public option that could that could easily be 35 million. for them it would be medicare for all. as mayor buttigieg says, but for others that they want to keep it they should be able to keep it. [ applause ] joining us now democratic presidential candidate and chair of the national governors association, governor steve bullock of montana who i think joe, maybe in some ways he s the lucky one. yeah. you re the lucky one. nobody yelled at you last night, governor, so congratulations on being so astute in planning this out. so, governor, what s your take
warren and kamala harris. a big story of the night. those polls came out earlier in the week, we thought this race has been set in concrete for a while with joe biden about 20 points up. something has got to give. well, last night something gave and it was kamala harris who came in. we knew that she was probably going to be the one who could stand on the stage and go at joe biden because somebody had to do change the dynamic of the race. she went in with a calculated idea. she executed it extraordinarily well. she got in a face in a way that was respectful and said i don t think you re a racist but here s why you re wrong for things you have done in the past. if anybody moves up it s going to be her. i think mayor pete had a good night. he had a thoughtful answer about what happened about what s going on in south bend, but kamala harris was the runaway winner last night. i will say this. that usually campaigns are about contrast. if you have somebody like donald trump loud and pe
how you re going to run things differently. and of course the balance every candidate has to think about, how do you get a word in edgewise without joining that scrum. one of the lightning round questions what would be the first thing you d do as president and you didn t have a lot of time to flesh it out but you said we have to fix our democracy. everything flows from there. what did you mean specifically? that s different from fixing the economy. that s a very broad point. what did you mean by that? it s because every issue depends on this. what are you talking it s everything. we saw a reminder yesterday of what s at stake with the supreme court paving the way for partisan gerrymandering. you can gerrymander based on party, but not on race and of course it s racial gerrymandering, but they give it a different name. that s one example of the many ways in which our democracy is being twisted. unfair districts, unfair influence of money. unfair set-up when it comes to the ele
and former chief of staff for the dccc and strategic communications for hillary clinton s presidential campaign, adrienne elrod. she s an msnbc contributor. all right. we have got a lot to get to. we have been talking a lot already before we got on the air here. because last night s debate was feisty and a lot happened and joe, i m going to put you in the uncomfortable position of wrapping it. how did the democrats do last night? you know, this is one of those moments where i have to figure out whether i m nice or whether i do what i get paid to do. well, be nice i guess since i want to keep getting paid, i m going to do be nice. with apologies to our friends and watching, last night was a disaster for the democratic party. i hope people were not watching