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Have the lieutenant governors job, they have the attorney generals job. this is part of a bigger story of the evolution, transformation of virginia politically. these are presidential election results. remember, this is from 1968 on. virginia used to be a safely red state, a safely republican state. remember, in 2008, with barack obama, it became a swing state. he won it. his margin in virginia was the same as his national margin. same in 2012, it looked like a bellwether state, a swing state. b...

Presidential winning margins in virginia starting in 1968 and you just see an ocean of red here. it flipped in 2008 to barack obama, stayed with obama in 2012, was right on sort of the national average there. in 2016 hillary clinton won it again. i think folks look to 2020 and they say democrats heavily favored to win virginia in 2020. whoever it is democrats control the governorship, democrats control the legislator. youre not really looking at a swing state anymore, lawrence, youre looking at ...

Republican vacancy. it was 21-19 essentially and the associated press says the democrats have picked up two seats there. net gain of two. they needed one because a 20-20 tie they would have been able to break with a lieutenant governors vote. the democrats get the house of delegates. the democrats also already have the governor in virginia. they have the lieutenant governor. they have the attorney general. democrats have complete control of virginia state government. its just again to put that i...

Delegates. the democrats already have the governor in virginia. they have the lieutenant governor. they have the attorney general. the democrats have complete control of virginia state government. just, again, to put that in some perspective, the transformation politically, the state of virginia, these are presidential election results in virginia going back to 1968. basically going back a half century here. look at this. these are republican martian he margins, right. we didnt think about it in...

Used to do i believe it wasnt until the generation of 1968 when the germany actually incorporated the values of the west this time so it. is but dwarfed this conflict was necessary. to ensure broad support for the formal anchoring of democracy in the basic law. act of tense. times were also changing in the west german buddhist time in 1989 social democrat village bryant became chancellor for the 1st time in the young countrys history the conservative christian democrats were no longer in power a...

A very optimistic picture for us to start this conversation. with me tonight "new york times" editorial board member and msnbc contributor mara gay, msnbc contributor mike barnicle is in the house and beth fuhy here on set. david ruecker joins us also. let me dip into your historical perspective if i can. the country as divided as it has ever been going into an election season. impeachment is ramping up. how do you explain how quickly the nation has pivoted from one point saying no to impeachmen...

Stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. >> the real story of the war nixon describes is one that few americans know. its a story of a small group of men who turned impeachment into an act of patriotism. it all begins on june 17th, 1972. >> five men were arrested early saturday while trying to install eavesdropping equipment at the democratic national committee. >> why was someone breaking into the democrats campaign offices? >> i again proudly accept that nomination for president of the un...

Shoot themselves in the foot that way, arguing about process, not defending him. then today you had i believe mr. morrison go up an nsc staffer. while he would not admit that what the president did was illegal in his opinion, its not his role to determine that or adjudicate that, he did corroborate what everyone is saying on the quid pro quo. so what do we have here? we have nixon colluding with a foreign power in 1968, trump colluding with a foreign power today ukraine and russia by the way, be...

When he said he will not fly in the 737 max. hed rather walk, he said. will a 737 max ever fly again? >> the burden of proof that it is a safe aircraft is very high right now. and its hard to say right now whether boeing can come back to the market with this aircraft given all that is unfolding right now. we may never see the 737 max in service. they might have to do what probably should have been done in the first place which is recertify new aircraft. the 737 first flew in 1968. and to say tha...

Jr., he ran for congress in 19 # 4 and won the detroit seat by a landsli landslide. civil rights movement pioneer rosa parks became the congressmans secretary. as a freshman, conyers introduced the original voting rights act of 1965 prohibiting racial discrimination in voting. president johnson signed it into law. conyers found himself at the center of the 12th street rye ya -- riot. >> the civil unrest that followed were immortalized by the film "detroit." >> this is your home. >> reporter: by ...