we have 88 candidates this time. they are spectacular candidates. and they re going to drive turnout in their districts. they re obviously not financial to win 88 seats, when you if et the people to vote. when hillary clinton won last year, you have a republican incumbent. they must be your happy hunting ground. you like them. we need 17 of them and 17 seats to flip the dell gather. that s a tall order. will you get 17? i think that s a tall order tonight. i think the last time that democrats won both new jersey and virginia governors races was 2005. we know what happened in 2006. and the reason we re winning is because i spent a lot of time in both states, people are talking about health care. they see what donald trump is doing. that i have lfd ones with an opioid addiction issue. they re seeing this president take away their access. in virginia, they haven t expanded medicare. why? because the republican-dominated
if that s what you believe, take the stand and fight for it. i think democrats have suffered far too long by being mealy mouth in having it both ways. is it something to die for? christie is not going to lose an election in virginia fighting for, you know, saying that, take down the confederate flag. this is a state that obama won back-to-back majorities, hillary clinton was not the best candidate in the world, carried four or five points. we had two democratic senators, in terry mcauliffe as governor, i don t think democrats stayed offensive in a state like virginia. if he believes we are taking down confederate monuments, he should fight for it and don t have it both ways. so is kornell. we have battlefields in virginia. lots of them the bum run, all kind of stuff out in virginia. much of the war was fought in virginia. should we take the confederate monuments off the battlefield, kornell? the truth of the matter is,
to use the trump playbook late in the gym using cultural issue gls they ll them. confederate statues, saying they should be kept up. talking about gangs. ms-13. gangs. saying that the democratic candidate was against outlawing sank dhu area cities, voting negatively to make a point? right. also allowing fellens out, you know, out of prison. we are looking at it is not a call. in these experts of virginia that have educated me, it s not a surprise the republican has a load and we see a winner for an hour or two. there they always dos the raw vote. sense i watched the nixon-kennedy in the 60s, don t pay attention to the raw
they were still in the company, they were having all these meetings. what bob mule ever, who is the connection? who knew what? history lesson, ehrlichman, mitchell. all those guys went down been nixon went down. there is mon a for the and a flynn indictment and more on manafort. what do you know about the flynn indictment? squeeze him in the father to protect the son? what are they trying to do to the guy? it was done in the rosenberg case, we will go after the part you love. can you save that part. you can t save yourself so make the deal. we see mueller moving in a smart methodical way. that s what you see a seasoned prosecutor like this do. he s frightening, anywaif. thank you. we re still tracking, of course, we will going to do throughout virginia that hot governor s race. again, nbc news, this gets kind of dull, characterizing the governor s race, it s too early to call. it s only:30.
perhaps, certainly an opportunity for him to get some perspective, but apparently, weather has foiled that attempt for president trump to be right on the boarder with north korea. chris? great reporting from kelly o donnell in seoul, south korea the latest in the russian investigation and much more as we are starting to see very early results in the virginia governor s race. right now we re calling it too early to call. back after this.