Californias overwhelmingly voted to keep Gavin Newsom as their governor. Instead of handing the governorship to trump supported radio host, Larry Elder. Here is governor Gavin Newsom tonight, thanking voters for rejecting trumpism, and Larry Elder in the state of california. Anne we said yes to all those things that we hold dear as californians. And i would argue as american, economic justice. Social justice. Racial justice. Environmental justice. Our values were californias made so much progress, all of those things were on the ballot this evening. And so im humbled, in grateful to the millions and millions of californians that exercise their fundamental right to vote and express themselves so overwhelmingly, by rejecting the division. Fire rejecting the cynicism, by rejecting so much of the negativity thats defined our politics. Leading off our Election Color tips at this hour, msnbc national corresponded steve kornacki, steve what are the latest numbers . We got him like here lawren
Closer we came to real disaster than we have known before now. So, again, this comes out next week. We have obtained a copy of it. This is how the book starts. Quote, two days after the January 6th, 2021 violent sought on the united States Capitol by supporters of president donald trump, general Mark Milley, the nations senior military Joint Chiefs of staff placed an urgent call on a Top Secret back Channel Line at 7 03 a. M. To his chinese counterpart, general lee, chief of the joint staff of the peoples liberation army. General milley knew from extensive reports that li and the chinese leadership were stunned by the unprecedented attack on the american legislature. Lee fired up questions to miley, was the Capitol Collapsing . What was going on . Was the u. S. Military going to do something . Milley said in response, quote, things may look unsteady. Quote, but thats the nature of democracy, general li. We are 100 steady, everything is fine but democracy can be sloppy sometimes. Quote,
Bob woodward and robert costa reporting in this new book it freaked out china and lots of foreign powers. and the united states top military officer felt the chinese were so freaked out he had to conduct his own secret back channel cool down chat with the head of the chinese military even though chairman of the joint chiefs mark milley did not even fully believe himself everything was okay, he lied and said it was. he felt like he d better tell the chinese military things were fine to make sure that nothing bad happened. the chinese believed they were at imminent risk of an unprovoked american attack by an unstable american president who needed to do that to save his own skin. what might they do to fend off
Thanks for joining us this hour we got up early the book is called peril it is by washington post journalist barr rewarded and robert costa it bob word woodward and bob costa. we ve obtained a copy tonight, evidence of speed-reading here, a rachel maddow specialty. this book has important news in it. what this book is about broadly speaking the peril it s describing in its title is just how fraught and dangerous the period was for the country surrounding the 2020 election and immediately thereafter. and in the broader possible strokes, of course, we know it was fraught and dangerous, right? we had our national capitol come under a violent attack. but the thing that is so bracing and nerve-wracking and important about this new book is what it reveals about how much worse it was than we knew, how much
Moments, i guarantee it, i m giving you my word. i can t say any of this publicly because i don t have the authorities and it would be misconstrued in 50 different directions but i can assure you the united states military is steady as a rock and we re not going to do anything illegal, unethical or immoral with a use of force. we will not do it. pelosi, who knows what me might do. he s crazy. don t say you don t what his state of mind is. he s crazy, and what he did yesterday meaning january 6th is further evidence of his craziness. but, anyway, i appreciate what you said. general milley, madam speaker, i agree with you on everything. and here s what bob woodward and robert costa report about chairman of the joint chiefs in the aftermath of that phone call. quote, pulling a schlesinger was what he needed to do to maintain the tightest possible control of the lines of military communication and command authority. the move was a reference to an edict by former secretary james