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,
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