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. We re 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, they re going to report them out within minutes of polls closing. In 2020, the presidential election last fall, first report from any county in california came 11 min
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
Chris hayes, i have to say it has been remarkable, truly to watch the split screen of the two big stories happening right now in america. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of september 11th. On one side of course afghanistan fall to the taliban, united states attempt to evacuate americans and afghan refugees in a chaotic, a cluster. On the other, we are 18 months into the pandemic and seeing another summer surge that is now taking the lives of about 1000 people per day. And i cannot help but contrast the two, think about the two next to each other. Juxtapose them. You don t have to look very far in a two fine dire warnings about the situation in afghanistan, there s the humanitarian aspect, but there are dire warnings from people that the security aspect. Afghanistan provides a useful reminder that while we and our european allies might be tired of forever wars the taliban are not tired of wars at all. Nor alqaeda and other groups that may make afghanistan their home again in the futu
Be now about change. I will say and i will keep it simple. We should not try to change the definition of what is because it makes others feel better. Sometimes when we have those conversations, we say what racism is without actually saying the word. That makes people feel better about what they think, what their believes are and how they choose other people and what they grown up to believe. You can t say there is and you are not talking about racism when you say systematic. Of course you are. That s what the definition is of racism without saying the word racist. It could be more than just race. It is. The first part is systematic, that s the system. The second part is race. That s with the definition already is. I think when you say it is systematic inequality, no, it is race. The system in this country were set up. Right. Set up for white people. I think there is an and. The system is the and. Yes, that s one and, there is another and. The cop does the bad thing and kills the person
it is in the workplace or someone not your friend. it is in the line at the bank, the super market, if someone says something that s racist or xenophobic or antisemitic. it is up to all of us to say hey, stop. not to cuddle people. you know whacuddling people andu know what got us? insurrection of racist and insurrection of the capitol. it got lawmakers in washington trying to make excuses for that because of what? coddling, people did not stand for what s right. whether it goes anywhere and there is a lot where the new president put on the table even if it is an executive order. i think the black president did not even do that. he s got to make good on it or it is going to make really bad. because he disnooes not have ignorance as an excuse. systematic inequality isr real. call it out. see something, say something. wait for their answer. if they don t have an answer when somebody does not know why they re wrong, you are good at giving people a break and help them u