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He said, i feel that i now have yet another mission as a defender of our democracy. the fabric of our nation is under attack while shame, a timeless beacon of right and wrong, seems dead. this is not the america i know and love. we re better than this. joining our discussion now captain sully sullenburger. this really is an honor to have you here. i greatly appreciate you joining us here on this election special coverage. what moved you to write this op-ed piece? i could i not? how could i not? i felt an intense obligation to act, not just to watch. to put my voice out there, to vote, to try to make a difference. i think that s an obligation each of us have in this critical time. we can t just yell at the tv. we have to do something, we have to vote. you say in the piece that for most of your life you were a registered republican. ....
People. we are in a very, very dangerous situation. all of us have to be up and active. we have to be on guard, and and ruth bader ginsburg, if you re recovering tonight and watching this, seriously i would do anything for you. i would i would literally donate a rib for you, although my ribs might not be might take up your whole body, but i m just saying that we ve got a lot of things in front of us here. a lot on our plate, lawrence, but the people are going to be heard and they re got nothing away just because they won on tuesday night. michael moore, thank you very much for joining us tonight. starting us off tonight. appreciate it. thank you, lawrence. thank you so much. coming up, the powerful message of hero pilot captain sully sullenberger. why he urng eurged people to vo democrats. that s next. later, obamacare was the most important issue for voters in this election. you ll meet a health care voter ....
The final hours of the election we talked about aaron he probably wasn t going to vote because he wasn t inspired enough by the candidates. the non-voters are the largest political party in the country. uh-huh. trump got 63 million votes. hillary 66 million. non-voters in the last election, over 100 million and usually mid-terms over 120 million. they re the largest political force. what i would say to aaron and other non-voters is, first of all, i understand why a lot of you don t vote. i understand why you think the system is corrupt. it is. i understand why you think the candidates sometimes just look like a bunch of old party hacks. they are. i understand why you re fed up and especially where i come from in the midwest why you re so ....
Upset how the system failed you. but here s the good news. and can i just speak to aaron directly. please do. aaron you have more power than lawrence or i or anyone else, because you belong to the largest political force in the country. all of the non-voters out there, you need to understand, you hold the power over this election. you control it. you can show up tuesday and stick to the man in a way nobody s ever been able to do it, because you, these non-voters, lawrence, are going to control this election. we don t know if aaron decided to vote in this election, but we do know more people turned out to vote than ever before in a mid-term election for the first time ever. the total vote across the country exceeded 100 million voters in a mid-term election. amp the election, michael moore put the democrats big wins in ....
Handedly, and also new states came online that were competitive obviously. senator sinema and also newly competitive states like texas and georgia a map deeply unfavorable to donald trump and one. reasons he s been so panicked since the day after the election. and jared bernstein, the exit polls showed health care policy as an issue was twice as important as the economy as an issue. never seen that before, but a good economy is not especially reassuring when you could lose your health insurance and lose your financial solve vaenncy be of it. yes. no question. yes, a strong macro economy and gdp is posting good numbers, unemployment is low but that s not the kitchen table issue. the kitchen table issue is, a., is that growth reaching you? you get all the gdp growth you want, but it doesn t put food on the table or pay the rent if it s not reaching you, and ....