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the senate says kushner withheld e-mails about a, quote, russian back door over tour. and house republicans pass the trump tax plan. i don t benefit. new analysis finds that the plan saves trump s family over $1 billion. i pay as little as possible. i fight like hell to pay as little as possible. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the same president who has weighed in on everything from meryl streep s acting to social media policies of espn tonight has no opinion whatsoever on the voracity of the allegations that his party s nominee for u.s. senate in alabama pursued and sexually assaulted between age girls when he was an adult. reporte reporters today his press secretary studiously avoided taking a position on whether the white house refusing to take a stand on roy moore is the same white house that claims that every single one of those women, every single one of the president s accusers, is lying. obviously, sexual hara ....
The the epitome of it. the question is whose example will it be? is i am certain it will be john s. strong words there. let s bring in chris cilliza and our legal analyst chris cordera. normally even a joke like this would be so inappropriate, the white house would immediately distance themselves and immediately reprimand, if not fire, this individual. you re right, wolf. i think two things. one, i think it is important to note that this staffer felt comfortable enough to make the joke. i think that tells you conte contextually this kind of atmosphere that donald trump has set in the white house and around the country. remember, donald trump had a campaign heavy on bullying, political incorrectness that often political incorrectness ....
Senate district 37 looked like last year when donald trump won by about 40 points. clinton pulling 27%. here s the same district tuesday night, when a democrat won the district senate seat in a special election. and i have to notice, not just any democrat, allison ikly freeman is a 26-year-old lesbian. she won by just 31 votes in a campaign heavy on turning out progressive voters, which ones there are, and while the special election turnout was low, this is still a striking flip. and it s hardly the only piece of good news for statehouse democrats this year. the list of seats flipped in state legislatures includes 15 seats in virginia, four seats in new jersey, four seats in oklahoma, two in georgia, four in new hampshire, and one each in washington, florida, and new york. tara dar dell is a democratic strategist and cornell belcher is a an msnbc analyst to discuss whether this looks like the beginning of a wave. as a pollster, what are you looking at right now? well, you know, it s ....
His behavior. he hasn t acted presidential at all. the tweets bother me. they might be enlightening to some people. i m not a tweeter, but to me it s like firing off these tweets, it s just childish. democrats are already capitalizing on that dissatisfaction, racking up electoral victories across the country. the latest, a win on tuesday in a state and a district that has been unmistakably red. that is what oklahoma s state senate district 37 looked like last year when donald trump won by about 40 points. clinton pulling 27%. here s the same district tuesday night, when a democrat won the district senate seat in a special election. and i have to notice, not just any democrat, allison ikly freeman is a 26-year-old lesbian. she won by just 31 votes in a campaign heavy on turning out progressive voters, which ones there are, and while the special election turnout was low, this is still a striking flip. and it s hardly the only piece of good news for statehouse ....