then the doj would again be in charge of whether to indict meadows. and this committee is playing legal hardball, reaching over 200 witnesses for testimony, and pushing people to testify. and bottom line, tonight s news continues that approach. think about it like this. trump s top 2016 aid, steve bannon, indicted. then contempt votes coming. and congress really wants to know why they re going to these lengths. what are they hiding? let s get right to it. i m joined by anna, and maya wiley. welcome to you both. emily, what do you see in the splitting between many who have cooperated, and these special three? well, i see close trump allies and it s hard to know whether they have legal exposure reasons to decide not testify, or whether they re trying to demonstrate loyalty to performer president trump. either way, they re setting up a real showdown, not only with congress, but after congress presumably votes on these orders, then also with the justice department. and people
something the president acknowledged today. well, uh, i think we should have it should have passed before election day. but i m not sure that i would be able to have changed the number of very conservative folks who turned out in the red districts who were trump voters but maybe. more on the president and his agenda, shortly. as well as analysis obt what happened in virginia. but first, cnn s mj lee joins us with more on the still-undecided new jersey s governor s race. the democratic incumbent phil murphy narrowly leading his republican challenger, jack ciattarelli. mj, this was certainly a lot closer than a lot of people thought. reporter: yeah, that s absolutely right, anderson. certainly, a lot closer than what phil murphy and his campaign and democrats had hoped to see. the latest update right now from here asbury park, new jersey, is that the murphy campaign has announced just within the last hour that he plans on giving a speech tonight at around 10:00 in the b
continue with it. so we re watching them watching us. watching us. watching them. watching them. this was a lot closer than democrats and phil murphy and democrats expected. absolutely, and we ll see how the governor explains that. we ll see if he spins it because he s got a little good news, not just that he won, obviously, but democrats don t get consecutive terms in new jersey as governor very often. he hasn t done it in a long hasn t happened in like 20 plus years, but this situation is all about why, and the immutable laws of politics that democrats ignored, which are people care about what matters closest to home. when they give you a mandate to do something, you bet dter do i got to do it. and if you are explaining, you are losing, and they have to talk the talk. they have to talk it consistently. and when given the opportunity, they have to walk the walk. listen, i spoke with you about this on the handoff today and also i saw the top of your show.
sure that i would be able to have changed the number of very conservative folks who turned out in the red districts who were trump voters, but maybe. more on the president and his agenda, shortly. as well as analysis of what happened in virginia. but first, cnn s mj lee joins us with more on the still-undecided new jersey s governor s race. the democratic incumbent phil murphy narrowly leading his republican challenger, jack ciattarelli. mj, this was certainly a lot closer than a lot of people thought. reporter: yeah, that s absolutely right, anderson. certainly, a lot closer than what phil murphy and his campaign and democrats had hoped to see. the latest update right now from here asbury park, new jersey, is that the murphy campaign has announced just within the last hour that he plans on giving a speech tonight at around 10:00 in the building behind me. this is where the election night party was held last night and this is where they had hoped to give a victory speech
voters dealt his party several major blows. in new jersey, what was expected to be a smooth win for democrats, the governor s race there is still too close to call. in virginia, voters rejected terry mcauliffe. they elected glenn youngkin. let s start, though, in new jersey. cnn s m.j. lee is in asberry park there. counts still happening there, much closer than many democrats and probably some republicans expected. reporter: that s right, victor, the counting is still going on, and governor murphy s team is basically waiting. they saw their campaign take the lead earlier today oever their opponent, and they do still believe that it is simply a matter of time before the race is called for them, but there s no sugar coating this, victor, they had a tough day yesterday, and a tough night last night. the race was closer than they hoped it would be. they had hoped that last night at the victory party that they were holding in the building just behind me that the governor would c