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for california governor newsom who easily defeated a republican-led recall that could have removed him from office. newsom s coronavirus policies validated by democratic voters who said no to the recall by a nearly 2:1 margin. the california governor thanked his supporters and warned about the dangers of republican efforts he says to undermine democracy. we said yes to see you inside, we said yes to vaccines, we said yes to ending this pandemic. we may have defeated trump, but trumpism is not dead in this country. the big lie, january 6th insurrection, all the voting suppression efforts happening across this country, what is happening, assault on fundamental rights, constitutionally protected rights of women and girls, this is a remarkable moment in our nati nation s history. larry elder who pledged to repeal newsom s coronavirus restrictions acknowledged his loss despite vowing to fight in the days before the vote. my opponent governor gavin newsom [ boos ] com ....
shenanigans. last night after the fact, he did let go of the big lie strategy. this is what he said. my opponent, governor gavin newsom [ booing ] come on, let s be gracious. let s be gracious in defeat. and, by the way, we may have lost the battle, but we are going to win the war. now, elder is already hinting at a run for governor in 2022, so let s bring in cnn white house correspondent phil mattingly for more on the results. walk us through this. brianna, look, going into the night there were a couple things that were very clear. democrats hold a major registration advantage in the state and, therefore, republicans who wanted to recall gavin newsom needed a bunch of things to happen all at the same time in a rather momentous manner. none of those things happened. take a look at where things stand right now. 70% reporting, obviously this race has been called. gavin newsom will remain governor. he s 2.5 million votes ahead. but look at the percentage. 63.9%. tr ....
they call out the fbi in failure of invets stigating abuse. to be clear, i blame larry nassar and i also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse. today i ask you all to hear my voice. i ask you, please, do all in your power to ensure these individuals are held responsible and accountable for ignoring my initial report. for lying about any initial report and covering up for a child molesters. this conduct by these fbi agents, including the special agent in charge who are held in high regard and expected to protect the public is unacceptable, disgusting and shameful. if we don t do all we can to get these fact, the problems we are here to address will persist and we are deluding ourselves if we think other children can be spared this constinstitutionali tolerance and abuse that i and so many others had to espendure. those were some of our most recognizable and beloved gymnasts. larry nassar is in prison for life after 150 young women and gi ....
this morning, in this room, to answer questions about why and why now? we re going to take you live there as we go one on one with the state attorney general who tried to build her own case against nassar. we re live out west and kornacki at the big board on what happens next now that gavin newsom held on to his seat. and new this morning, what we just learned the justice department did to try and block that controversial abortion law in texas. we re taking you live to the pentagon with new fallout from the latest trump book, revealing what joint chiefs chair mark milley said to china, why some republicans are demanding milley step down. we start with the hearing that is happening now behind me at the capitol building on the senate side. good morning to both of you. thank you for being with us. and, ann, let me go to you, here are the four gymnasts we expect to hear from today. simone biles, everybody knows her. mckayla maroney, aly raisman and abbie nichols as well. yo ....
so there is a real problem in terms of disabled people being employed within the industry. the second thing, and related to that is the stories that are told about disability are few and far between. that i can only think of a handful of shows in my lifetime and it is very hard to get those disabled stories told. i ve been trying for years to tell disabled stories on conventional drama budgets, and every time i ve been able to tell a disabled story on tv, it s been with a reduced budget because that s the only way of doing it. and we need to be elevated and we need to be put into the mainstream, and the reason why, and this was i think the reason why this speech belonged this year, is that i think that what covid showed beyond anything else is the ableism is rife in our country and the fact that disabled people were shut out of conversations and ignored in the statistics as to how many deaths were put into different columns, how many disabled deaths, those with underl ....