of the state broadcaster with the general appearing on air to say they are only targets criminals that make the country suffer in order to bring them to justice, adding as soon as they accomplish their mission, they expect the situation will return to normal him but what is the normal? that is the question t. 93-year-old mugabe has been in power 37 years, recently fired a member of the political party, a deputy of hess, potentially pave figure way for his wife grace to be the next leader. this prompted the commander of the army to say earlier this week, he must remind those behind the treacherous shenanigans, the military will not hesitate to step in. it seems now the military has followed through with that threat. but we are going to have to see how it plays out. right now it seems it s organized unrest, a power struggle within a political party and the military right
i feel good. james brown. i feel good because for the first time in two election cycles, especially off-year election cycles, democrats are holding their own. this was a blue wave. this was not just a national party invested in down ballot races. this was grassroots democrats and i am taking back my city council. i am taking back my sheriff seat, my state delegate seat. you ll like this, john. i came down from boston, mika, and i went down to northern virginia and said what the hell am i doing with my life? i m 57. i should be home sleep iing, right? i was out there canvassing with kathy. they said she couldn t win that seat. she was the first asian female to win that seat. grassroots democrats are taking back the party and they re going to take back the country next year. 5% increase in turnout, the big issue for democrats in offseason election, turnout, turnout,
own anything, you own the house, you got the key, the checkbook. i didn t have the key or the checkbook. meanwhile, we were being hacked by the russians. they were coming after us like you know what. and all i needed was the ability to raise money and to fight, because i wanted hillary to win. i wanted democrats across the country to win. i wanted to motivate and energize this party but i had no do you know what they told me? we ll give you two million. i said i need eight. two. i want my money. i wanted to fight. clarify one thing because i wanted to fight. in reaction to your piece, the clinton campaign and other democrats have come out and said this joint financial agreement that you ve referred to was meant for the general election, not for the primary process. in other words it wouldn t have rigged the primary process. it was meant to defeat let me clarify what that was for. first of all, let me say this for the record. i was an unpaid officer for eight years. i took this
people on set i don t mean to interrupt you. i want everybody to get a chance to get a question in. i m going to give you a softball. this morning i think it s in order. it s not just you re talking about virginia. it wasn t just virginia. manchester, new hampshire, the first democrat win for a mayor since, i think, 1985. you look at long island. democrats winning republican seats there. westchester county. you have an entrenched republican, incumbent, everybody thought was going to win. pennsylvania counties, republicans have dominated for a century wiped away. this was about as expansive as a win for any party in an off year since at least 2010. is it about trump mainly? no. do you know what it s about? what every one of those races have in common by the way, we flipped two seats in georgia in special elections. the significance of that is that
things, you look at turnout among liberals in virginia, turnout was 8% four years ago, to vote for a gubernatorial candidate who twice cast his ballot for george wncht bush before he got into politics. that doesn t mean that democrats have solved all their problems. you ll be talking to donna brazile shortly. she s illuminating the divisions in the party. democrats delivered for their candidate yesterday and that has all kinds of ripple effects when you look at next year. it helps democratic fund-raising, recruitment and might encourage some republican incumbents to hang it up and retire. 2.5 million people turned out to vote. it was a rainy night, cold night. it was way up from four years