discuss piece arrendondo, after we re hearing stunning reports of law enforcement just outside the classroom. and on nbc news, a top kremlin official broke russia s silence on the two u.s. veterans captured in ukraine. we ll get the latest from moscow. primary elections in virginia and washington, d.c. with runoffs in three other states. steve kornacki will break down what you need to know. and we are just three hours away from another key hearing by the house january 6th committee. the panel plans to lay out an elaborate effort by former president donald trump and his allies to pressure state lawmakers and election officials into defying the will of the voters. and overturning the election he lost. today, we ll be hearing from arizona house speaker rusty bowers who resisted the pressure from trump and his allies and georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger who trump tried to push to find votes just days after the attack on the capitol. moments ago nbc news learned
wave. you see it in virginia, one could be the second district around the virginia beach area. this is a seat currently held by a democratic, elaine luria, the big anti-trump democratic wave. she held it in 2020. this district, like the west of virginia swung hard in 2021 toward glenn youngkin, the republican who won the governorship of virginia last year. this is the republican primary tonight. we ll keep a close eye on how this one goes. state senator general kiggans endorsed by national republicans. they believe she s their best bet to flip the seat in november. we ll also be keeping a close eye on the seventh district of virginia in november, again, abigail spanberger, a democrat flipped the seat in 2018, held it in 2020. it s a district that voted for glenn youngkin. there s a lot of different dime
analyze, ben.com domenech ben domenech and julie banderas. ben, what s your take on the media cover only on the first anniversary of that tragedy and president biden s speech many particular? well, i m glad that you used that chuck todd clip, because it was something i was going to bring up describing your reaction to that speech as being partisan is itself in some way an indication that you ve bought into everything that donald trump says about the election or something along those lines. that s absurd. that speech was partisan. it was very clearly partisan. it was just as partisan as don lemon or joy reid or chuck todd is or anybody on these other networks who espouses these views. and i think it s very unfortunate and a mistake politically on the part of the president to go down this road. we we saw what happened in virginia in november when you had this lean in for the previous month, essentially, from democratic candidates trying to wrap january 6th and everything that happene
this week when she was speaking at a new york democratic convention. republicans will claim they are on the side of parents and family values, but they will do nothing for actual parents or families, nothing on child care, nothing on paid leave, nothing to help working moms and dads get by and get ahead. how is that going to play? i think for a lot of republicans they re perfectly fine with hillary clinton coming out and saying republicans claim they re the party that s for parents voice. you can imagine that being excerpted in but she didn t say that. i think a lot of democrats are still reeling from what happened in virginia in november with glenn youngkin running effectively on a message about parental voice which was able to unify conservatives who were very fired up about culture war issues and what they think is overreach within institutions like schools, and more moderate swing voter parents who those may not be the things that fire them up but they re concerned abo
to help working moms and dads get by and get ahead. how is that going to play? i think for a lot of republicans they re perfectly fine with hillary clinton coming out and saying republicans claim they re the party that s for parents voice. you can imagine that being excerpted in but she didn t say that. i think a lot of democrats are still reeling from what happened in virginia in november with glen youngkin running effectively on a message about parental voice which was able to unify conservatives who were very fired up about culture war issues and what they think is overreach within institutions like schools, and more moderate swing voter parents who those may not be the things that fire them up but they re concerned about their kids. these are the kinds of issues that, beginning, cost of living, inflation is the number one thing that is going to drive this midterm but cultural issues under the surface, republicans have been given an opportunity to have the to claim the