Called fascinating and astonishing, hes launching a Worldwide Survey of catholics on issues ranging from gay marriage to divorce. What will he do with the answers . Hi, everyone, im tamron hall. The news nation is following how the watt Political Parties are digesting results of elections in key races could have Significant Impact in the coming years. After his landslide victory last night, new Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaking at an event in union city, new jersey. Well bring you the latest on what Chris Christie is saying on this day after. And Chris Christies 60 is largely being seen as a big win for the socalled establishment republicans. As the New York Times puts it, quote, in a state where democrats outnumber republicans by over 700,000, mr. Christie won a majority of the vote with women and hispanics and made inroads among Younger Voters and blacks. Christie won 32 of democrats and 51 of latinos and 21 of africanamericans. Meanwhile, in virginia, after democrat Terry Mcau
Im for keeping them up. And what to make of the president s opioid announcement. If we can teach young people and people generally not to start, its really, really easy not to take them. When all in starts now. Good evening from new york. Im joy reid in for chris hayes. Tonight amid signs that Robert Muellers investigation could be closing in, the white house is scrambling to discredit the messenger with a big assist from his partners on fox news. Theres no way the American People can trust Robert Mueller to investigate anything russian related. What really stinks here is mueller, rosenstein, Andrew Wiesman and james comey appear to have covered it all up, the uranium one deal. We have to have mueller fired. Yes, Robert Mueller, i hope youre watching. Oh Robert Mueller, are you awake tonight . Robert mueller is now investigating anything involved with russia, how is that possible . To be fair and impartial, its impossible because of his past role in this. He should resign immediately t
It looks to be very, very close at this hour. Over the weekend, the chairman of the Virginia State Republican Party told politico that a ken kuchenell victory was in reach. If turnouts in the 30s, were going to win. If it gets higher up in fairfax county, say like 40 , its likely we wont win. Well, tonight in blue fairfax county, virginia, shortly before 9 00, he posted, we are at 44. 3 turnout. We will probably hit plus 45 . Virginia republicans were right. The lower the turnout in places like fairfax county, the better for their candidate. As it happens, though, that did not work out for them tonight. Joining us is steve carnaky. We saw an electorate in virginia that looked much more like 20 12 than in 2009. What we saw play out tonight in virginia was a repeat of Election Night in virginia in 2012, where in 2012, romney was leading in the state in all the returns that were out there, 8 00, 9 00, 10 00. Its those big counties, like loudoun, prince william, fairfax county, arlington,
Lets begin with the breaking news. Political earthquake shakes the foundations of the gop establishment. The House Majority leader, eric cantor, thought to be aligned one day for the speakership, has just said he will instead give up his post after a stunning primary upset by a political upstart, tea Party Influenced College Professor david brat. The aftershocks of the vote are raising huge questions about the midterm elections, the makeup of congress and any last vestiges of compromise here in washington. Analysts and experts are standing by. Lets begin with our chief congressional correspondent, dana bash. He just wrapped up a statement at a News Conference, give us the headline. Reporter the headline is hes no longer going to be the majority leader as of july 31st, perhaps sooner, but certainly as of july 31st. And the House Majority leader came out of a meeting with his entire republican caucus, it was about 30 minutes long, and it was clear that he didnt have much to say about, yo
Kelly, take me through the guilty verdict. You were there in the courtroom. You heard it it and you sprinted right back over to our camera, god love you and tell me a little bit about what the reaction was on the mcdonnells. Reports are that they were, in fact, sobbing. I heard the sobs myself, luke. The emotion really reverberated through the courtroom and there was a lot of tension today to begin with. The jury of seven men and five women and its been 17 hours working through this case after five weeks of testimony, evidence and witnesses and the conspiracy count and had Bob Mcdonnell and his wife made an agreement to engage in a conspiracy to seek out and accept gifts and loans from a virginia businessman in order to trade for some influence and when that guilty count were read for Bob Mcdonnell and his wife there were loud moans and gutwrenching sobs. I was able to see maureen mcdonnell, her head up and down. Our colleague who was able to see the former governor said he was shaking