and they are beautiful. they re beautiful. on behalf of all of them, we thank you. and listen, if a drag queen wants to read you a story at a library, listen to her, because knowledge is power. and if someone tries to restrict your access to power, they are trying to scare you. so listen to a drag queen. we love you. thank you. knowledge is power. listen to a drag queen. the incomparable rupaul takes off the air tonight. and on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. we if you don t for joining me this hour. donald trump handily winning the iowa caucus last night. not that much of a surprise. but this, this was. i don t know if you know, but they did polls tonight on the election of 2020. do you believe it was honest or not? 82% said 82% said it was not. now, before we go on further here, i should clarify that much like the size of his inaugura
not excited about that, but that is only the similarity that me and the other guy. half david plouffe, palmieri, they can both. that is all for all in tonight. good evening, alex, where are you? did you say, where am i? yeah, you re not here. it s not the dark cone of last night. lastyou know what it, is it s dp kornacki and the big board. all the board is there. i m here, come visit. i m isa. all right. thank, you my friend. and thank you to you at home for joining me this hour. donald trump handling winning the iowa caucus last night, was not that much of a surprise. but this, this was. i don t know if you know, but they did polls tonight on the election of 2020, do you believe that it was on us or not, 80% 82% said it was not. now, before we go on further here, i should clarify that much like the size of his inauguration crowd or is square footage in his new york city apartment, donald trump is inflating the numbers again. the real number is 66%. nbc
lot of smart people and judgement is everything. you are a brilliant person. but i think your judgment is incredible. i look to you that s nice. really. your conception of politics, the way you are able to blend radical analysis with a vision to move forward is a north star for me. hearing you enunciate the case for optimism is affecting me. one thing that i come back to is, american liberal democracy and the way we think of what it is is basically a 46-year. perment. absolutely. it s a small thing. your idea say more about the idea that we are not trying to rebuild things. we want to make something new, which is an actually equitable, just, flourishing, multi-racial
point. the other point i think about here is in the end this doesn t happen and i think it speaks to something that s at the core of what happened during that period, which, and i think it pertain to see the work that you re very focused on which is how do you fortify and strengthen guard rails of american liberal democracy and constitutional governance. there was this threat that people would quit. there was the specter of a saturday-night like massacre, we got this text from sean hannity and mark meadows around the same time, on december 31st, says we can t lose the entire white house council s office, i do not see january 6 happening the way he was told. i think this was pertaining to another part of the plot but ultimately, it seems to me a huge part of what happened was enough people in the white house around said we ll quit if you do this and the political blow back from that is what stop it d from happening as best as we tell. that s true, seems to be true of those bureaucrats
and i sort of realized there s a lot of smart people and that judgment is actually everything. and you are obviously a brilliant person, i think your judgment is incredible. and i think like sort of, i look to you. that s nice. no, really. your conception of politics and the able to blend the radical analysis and the pragmatic vision of moving forward is a north star. hearing you annunciating the key is effective for me. honestly, one thing that i keep coming back to is, american liberal democracy in the way that we think of an actually democracy is a 46 year experiment. absolutely. it s not the majority of the time. it s a small little thing and your idea, i want you to stay more about the idea. we are not trying to rebuild things. the idea is, we actually want to make something new. which is actually an equitable