And The One And Only Steve Kornacki is here to kick off Election Night Coverage as we get our very first Exit Polls in the California Recall. When All In starts right now. Good evening from New York. Im chris hayes. Its Election Night in america. Just a few hours from now polls will close in the Recall Election of California Governor Gavin newsom. First huge election of this year. Well have more on it in a bit with Steve Kornacki at the Big Board. Of course once those votes come in, right, they get counted and we go through the mechanics of the election, the actual mechanics of which how you go from votes being cast to the winner being certified, you know, Thats Kind of opaque. We think of it just as a Process Where, you know, people cast their votes and then some stuff happens and then we get the final number and the person with the most votes wins. We learned last year that its more complicated than that. Theres an entire process. Its staffed by people, you know, overwhelmingly anony
And immediately thereafter. And we know it was fraught and dangerous. We had our national capitol come under violent attack. But the thing that is so bracing and nervewracking and important about this new book is what it reveals about how much worse it was than we knew, how much 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 assault on the capitol by supporters of donald trump, general Mark Milly, chairman of the 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. Was It Collapsing . What was going on . Was the u. S. Military going to do something . Milly said in respons
Outnumber republicans roughly 21. Leading challenger right Wing Talk Show Host Larry Elder has already started Laying Groundwork to blame a loss if it happens on socalled election fraud. To get us situated before the starting line, the big board, Steve Kornacki is on duty. The nbc News Decision Disk has given us the following wording straight up, this race is technically too early to call, but no, the anti recall vote, is in the lead. Were going to get results from california. No means no recall. Yes means yes recall Gavin Newsom. All 58 counties will start lighting up within next couple of minutes. Take you through what to expect here. Way they do elections in california, a lot of mailin voting, usually vast majority are cast by mail, many sent in last few days, weeks. Counties have been receiving them, processing them, theyre going to report them out within minutes of polls closing. In 2020, the president ial election last fall, First Report from any county in california came 11 minu
Surrounding the 2020 election, and immediately thereafter. And in the broadest possible structure, we know it was fraud and dangerous. We had our national capital come under violent attack. But the thing that is so bracing in nerveracking, and important about this new book, is what it reveals about how much worse it was than we knew. How much closer we came to real disaster, then we have known before now. 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 violinists on the u. S. Capitol by supporters of president Donald Trump, general mark milley, the national security Military Officer in chairman of the joints of staff placed an urgent call on top secret black Channel Line at 7 03 am to his chinese counterpart, general li, chief of the joint staff of the liberation army. He knew from extensive reports that lee and the chinese Men Leadership were stunned in distorted by the televised images of the unpr
Californians overwhelmingly reported to keep Gavin Newsom as their governor, instead of hAnding the governorship to trump supporting Radio Host Larry elder. Here is governor Gavin Newsom tonight, thanking voters for rejecting trumpism, And Larry Elder. In the state of california. We said yes to all those things that we hold dear, as californias And i would argue as americans. Economic justice, social justice, environmental justice, our values were california has made so much progress. All of those things are on the ballot this evening, And so im humbled And grateful, to the millions And millions of californians to exercise their fundamental right to vote. And express themselves to overwhelmingly reject the division, by rejecting the cynicism, by rejecting so much of the negativity thats defined our politics. Leading off our Election Coverage once again at this hour, Msnbc National Political correspondent steve kornacki. Steve, what are the latest numbers . You got him right here lawren