montana, voted to protect abortion rights. the vote tonight nullifies the states six-week abortion ban, passed by republicans in the ohio legislature that is currently being challenged in court and joining us now we think is steve kornacki, the national political correspondent for nbc news an msnbc or perhaps not. the control room thought we had steve cord aki and we thought he was going to be wandering into this studio, but he may be stuck between studios somewhere on this floor. we're gonna find. and we're gonna get him back. instead, joining us now is sherrod brown, democratic senator from ohio. mr. brown, what is your take on what the voters of whole ohio have delivered? >> not thrilled. i started to shut hijack your show for a moment and, do a shout out to the victory party in columbus, they have a lawrence o'donnell on the screen. volunteers have been in the vineyards fighting for years for women's health and women's rights, and a whole bunch of volunteers and fundamentally they're all saying that women should make that choice, women and their doctors should make the choice on what they want to do with their health care, not a bunch of politicians in columbus. and loud and clear they spoke in ohio, and it's good news in ohio, but you point out it's good news across the country because we see one case after another where voters say women and doctors should make these decisions, not a bunch of politicians in their state capital. >> do you see, in this, something that your colleagues, democratic senators, yourself, running for reelection, something in this that they can use? >> i think it's clear, which side you're on, and my race next year i've had obviously a long record of fighting for women's health issues and reproductive choice and freedom, and i in my opponent opponents, all three republicans in the primary next spring, all of them are calling for a national abortion ban. politics is not left or right. it's which side you are on. and that's why i asked people to come to sherrodbrown.com. it's volunteer, we're gonna win this race next year based on my record of fighting against special interests but also the fact that so many activists in ohio were discouraged. we won a big victory in august, to stop the rigging of the elections system the way that frank la rose and the others tried to bring it, and we saw these activists today with this win energized and they know they can change the world and change the country and change my state and that's the news to celebrate. >> how do you do it? how is it that you seem to be the only democrat who can win statewide in ohio? >> i think we're gonna see more of that. we've talked about this new. i think after the august, special voters want someone who's going to win -- taking on the railroads, taking on the drug companies, we brought the price of insulin down to $35 a month, brought the no senior pays more than $2,000 for drugs. taking on wall street. taking on oil, and voters on ohio know i'm on their side the left or right, they don't take a whole lot of who is fighting for them but they do think a lot about and that's why in the next 12 months people say how you gonna run your campaign? essentially i'm gonna do my job and continue making those fights for women's health, for consumer issues, taking on wall street and the drug companies and big banks. >> going back to the issue of the night in ohio, abortion rights, sometimes voters, when they go out there and they cast a vote like that, they think they're done. they think they have taken care of the issue in ohio. but of course a republican senate, and a republican house of representatives, could pass a federal ban on abortion that would apply to and override what the ohio voters did tonight. how do you keep voters engaged on that issue after some of them might think they have done their job tonight? >> they certainly did their jobs tonight. but it's more than that. i think we all kind of were a bit naive thinking that roe v. wade, women's right to reproductive rights will always be there, voting rights will always be there, consumer protections will always be there. well, they're not. because there are always people trying to take these away. my three opponents, there are three republicans running for this senate seat, two of them self funders, one of them an uber-partisan secretary of state, and all of them have said they won a national abortion ban. there are candidates all over the country like. that we win on this tonight very significant, and list all of us up and gets all of us and empowers us. but we need to continue into next year to make sure these candidates into ohio and annexed year who pledged to their base that they are going to pass a national abortion ban, we've got to make sure that doesn't happen. that's really my mission for the next 12 months. >> what do you think are issues number two and three for democrats? >> i think issues number two and three are two key buildings economy and making sure that voters understand the democrats in ohio for sure, that i'll continue to take on wall street. we've seen the kind of abuses wall street has done. we've seen bad trade deals that have shut down production of too many plants in my hometown of mansfield. we've seen wall street continue to try to take advantage of veterans. we did a hearing last week where these veterans are preyed upon they are protected by the consumer bureau. we've got to continue to come down on the side of regular people who serve this country, regular people just want to get through the daily mess of life and do okay in their lives, and too often they are preyed upon by all kinds of interest groups that don't really much care about them, and my job is to fight for people who too often are overlooked and ignored by our political system, by our government. >> what's your message for your fellow democratic senators when you get back into that senate luncheon room with the group? >> my message, today i talked to the group about the importance of standing strong on trade, to make sure that american, whether it's by america or whether it's trade agreements to protect american workers, i see the damage it has done. i see the industrial policy we now have to bring back more manufacturing. i have seen it start to happen in ohio. everything from broadband expansion in rural ohio to protecting consumers at the other end of the state in toledo, that will be continue to be my message. >> ohio senior senator sherrod brown, thank you very much for leading off our coverage. >> have a great evening. thanks s much. >> always have time for set up for the volunteers. now it's steve kornacki has found his way into our studio tonight. steve, what is the latest? one of the things we should be paying attention to now? >> the biggest outstanding piece of business right now is a virginia state legislature we are going through a few minutes ago. glenn youngkin in the republicans are trying to control both chambers. they have the house of delegates right now. they're trying to add to that the state senate. they've taken a couple of blows in the state senate side make that look very difficult for them, and they taken a few on the house side as well that make holding on to that very questionable for them. let's take a look here at mississippi. the governor's race in mississippi. you see about half the vote is in, the republican incumbent, tate reeves, as a 14-point advantage, but i think that could be a bit deceptive. this is going to tighten. the question is, how much is this going to tighten? one thing to keep in mind, when reeves got elected four years ago, the margin was only five points. the base question tonight in any given county is, is presley running by a margin five points better than the democrat when four years earlier, when he's doing that in a county where that post impotently in on track to win, there is also runoff possibility here. he needs to basically improved by about five points in any given county. let's look at a couple of we've got voting from. de soto county, right outside memphis, tennessee, a big fast growing county, tate reeves is leading this county by 18 points. four years ago tate won this by 23 points. so presley has shaved five points right now off of reeves advantage. we'll see what happens with the remaining vote, but that's what he needs to do. if he lost, if democrats lost by 20 points four years ago, presley these to get it 18 or less. now he has done it 18. that's kind of movement he needs to see. this is definitely going to get closer, in the question becomes, how much closer? this is the big question mark right now. hinds county, where the state capital of jackson iss, no votes in from there yet. one out of every ten votes in mississippi is going to come out of hinds county. the reason there are no votes in from hinds county is because sometime late this afternoon, they ran out of ballots. so they have kept the polls open, and live close throughout the rest of the state we've got reports in, a lot of reports from the rest of the state, nothing from hinds county. this is a huge core democratic county. in the 2019 governors race the democrat won it by 26 points and won the major points for brandon presley and the democrats, it's 70% black, so there's evidence in some of these mississippi delta counties, that have large populations of presley over performing where the democrats were four years ago so if that continues, if he ends up getting a huge number and a huge turnout out of hinds county, and also along the gulf coast, presley improved in some counties, this could get interesting. but we really, i think we're gonna spend a lot of time waiting for here, i think, is hinds and what it does as the other votes come out. >> are there any reports on how you run out of ballots in a heavily democratic area like that? >> as i said, if you are a presley campaign that might be an encouraging sign. because it was such a point of emphasis to drive up african american turnout. so if you find out that a 70% african american county ran out of ballots, it could be a sign that your strategy is working. >> steve, we will be coming back to you in the hour. thank you very much for that. another critical race for democrats to retain control of the senate next year is a heavily republican state of montana. democratic senator jon tester is running for reelection in the state that on trump won by 16 points in the last presidential election. today senator tester launched his first television ad of the campaign. >> three generations of my family have farmed this land outside of -- i know the montana that's worth protecting because i've lived it every day. where we look out for each other, where our word is our bond. but like so much of our state, it's changed. these are too expensive. some families are being forced to sell their firms. they've had four generations. we are losing access to our public lands. hell, even some of our favorite bars are closing. folks back in washington and even some folks moving here don't understand or frankly don't care what's happening out here. defending our way of life, with everything i've got. >> joining our coverage now is montano's senior senator jon tester, running for reelection. thank you very much for being here tonight. do you take any encouragement for your campaign out of what you are seeing in ohio tonight? >> absolutely. i think it applies to montana. i think montanans don't want federal government telling them what to do, and certainly women's health care decisions fall squarely into that. and so absolutely, it is very informative. in a state like montana that tends to be pretty libertarian, a vote in ohio, i think, applies very directly. we've got folks in montana who want to take away women's right to choose. they want to take away a woman 's right to make their own health care decisions. the governor of the republican state legislature, even after montanans had voted to keep it in the hands of the women, they have tried to undermine that every step of the way. so absolutely. i think that montana is going to reflect closely what happened in ohio tonight. >> we also see, in kentucky, a democrat winning the governorship, winning reelection to the governorship in another strongly republican state. that's a model for the way you run your reelection campaigns. >> look, andy beshear is a good man. he's got a great record. and he ran on that record and he won and he should've won. he served the state of kentucky very well. i think the same thing can apply to me. we've got a great record. i'm one of the most effective senators in the u.s. senate. we've done good things across the board, whether it's for veterans, and we're, cultures mall business, working families. it really is very broad based. we just gonna let folks know about that. we've also got to let them know where i come from and who i am. and that's exactly what that ad did. and for the folks out there that are watching, jon tester. come and get involved in this campaign. >> what's the contrast going to be between you and a republican in this election next year? >> i don't know who the republican opponent is going to be, honestly. mcconnell's got his person, the person who's in the eastern district of montana and congress is potentially going to run. it really doesn't matter. it's going to be about who can best serve montana back in washington, d. c.. who knows rural america, who knows montana. who is flat for montana and who's got things done for montana. i think when people take a look at my record and compare it to the other folks, the other records were pale in comparison. >> what would you call the top three issues in your campaign in montana? >> look, agriculture is always going to be a big issue because agriculture is the number one industry in our state. access to public lands. montana is the greatest state in the greatest country in the world. the reason it's a great state because we have public lands and people have access to those public lands to go hunting and fishing and hiking and biking and all of those quality of life things that are so very important. and then there is several more but i'll just talk about veterans. second highest per capita veterans in the country. our people serve at a higher rate than just about any of the state of the union. we are very proud of our military. and we're very proud of our veterans. we need to make sure that our veterans are taken care of when they come back from active duty and become civilians. and those are three issues that are very big in montana. they're also three issues that i've been very involved in. >> what's the democratic versus republican view of agriculture in montana? is there any difference in the parties on that? >> look, i think there is. a lot of issues. take a look at consolidation in the meatpacking industry. democrats are working to break that up. republicans, it's the same old same old stuff. competition is not too good in that industry, and quite frankly competition, or capitalism works very well where this competition. but there is a competition in. that who's bearing the brunt of that? the cow calf operators are bearing that. you can make the same argument for inputs for agriculture. there needs to be more competition in the marketplace. the fact that there's just a few seed companies, or just a few chemical companies, some flying farmers with chemicals, that's driving family farmers out of business. quite frankly, i've been fighting for those kind of issues since the very first day i walked through the doors of united states senate. to make sure we have competition. to make sure the farmers and ranchers get a fair shake. >> you are pretty much the only gets the comes on this program to talk about agricultural policy and government, and so i would love hearing the details of it. i hope the audience does, as well, because this is a very different state you are running in. where most of the people in this country live. as you go forward, what do you think are the stresses that you expect in the campaign next year? issues that could be live next year that aren't so prominent right now? >> so look, lawrence, what they have always done in every campaign that i have ever run in his they've tried to make me into somebody that i'm not so they can run against that person. they've already tried to do it in this election. they're going to do it over the next 12 months. there's no doubt about it. we have to remind people where i came from. i was basically, the town i was born in, i lived my whole life within hundred miles of that town before i got this job. my roots are deep. my grandparents, like grandmother, grandfather homesteaded the place we are on. i'm incredibly lucky man, my wife and i, to be able to form that land. people need to know. that people need to know that i fight for montanans every single day in a place where there is not a lot of representation of real rural america back here. and so they will try to make me into something i'm not. that's fine. let them do it. it's really hard for them to make me somebody i'm not because i am who i am. that's way of always been. we've won elections being who i am, and i'll continue to be that. will i say stuff that's inappropriate once in a while? sure. i will. but the bottom line is, i'm going to continue to make sure i'm looking out for rural america, making sure we have a seat at the table on every policy that comes up. >> senator jon tester who has never said anything inappropriate on this program, thank you very much for joining us again tonight. >> a pleasure to be with you, lawrence. >> and coming up, andrew weissmann and neal katyal will join me for a status update on the status of united states of america versus donald j trump in which special prosecutor jack smith filed four important motions. that's next. of doing things. america's plastic makers are investing billions of dollars in new technologies and creating plastic products that are more recyclable. durable. and dependable. our goal is a cleaner, healthier planet for generations to come. for a better tomorrow, we're focused on making plastics better today. somedays, i cover up because of my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. now i feel free to bare my skin, thanks to skyrizi. ♪(uplifting music)♪ ♪nothing is everything♪ i'm celebrating my clearer skin... my way. with skyrizi, 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months. in another study, most people had 90% clearer skin, even at 5 years. and skyrizi is just 4 doses a year, after 2 starter doses. serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine, or plan to. thanks to clearer skin with skyrizi - this is my moment. there's nothing on my skin and that means everything! ♪nothing is everything♪ now's the time. ask your doctor about skyrizi, the #1 dermatologist-prescribed biologic in psoriasis. learn how abbvie could help you save. a mystery! jessie loves playing detective. but the real mystery was her irritated skin. so, we switched to tide pods free & gentle. it cleans better, and doesn't leave behind irritating residues. and it's gentle on her skin. tide free & gentle is epa safer choice certified. it's got to be tide. okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. yay - woo hoo! ensure, with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. 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