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It s a fluid situation. democrats have picked up six republican held seats in the house of delegates and the magic number is 17. six they ve picked up before i came up here three minutes ago, it might have be it might have changed. they led six plus 12 you get 18, if say huge if but if that holds. wow. that s unthinkable coming in to tonight. a win of the house of delegates. that s what we re really looking at right now. background context this is a state that has a democratic governor, that has gone for the democratic presidential candidate with the 66-34 imbalance in the house of delegates. that gerrymandering was just struck down by a court and you can see the mismatch between the state has voted at the statewide level and the margin there but they may be coming to a close tonight. certainly that gap is going to narrow. with me now, i have david ....
and why did she call you? she called me because i reached out to the tenants in her building, which are great friends of mine, out of concern for them. after richard spencer s hailing. and she called me shortly after that and she asked me what she should do. and i just can t imagine that by me trying to help that this situation would have i would have ended up in this situation. it s unfathomable. let me get a little more background context. this white supremacist was in washington, he said horrible things, the video went viral, his mother was getting heat back in mont moana and that s where s gets going a little bit. in filing suit, filed in montana, you know, what was done is awful. but you ve got to have a cause ....
Shot, one killed. that is the background context against which something like this happens. we should also note, jason, that i was reading an act of how account of how they conduct monthly active shooter drills. some of the folks inside that center when they saw the law enforcement coming into deal with the active shooter situation, assumed, the way one does sometimes during a fire drill that it maub drill and not the real must be a drill and not the real thing. reporter: in fact that s interesting. there s a woman we spoke with who is a teacher just at an elementary school, just about a mile away. and when the news came in that they started hearing that there was a shooting, everyone assumed, at least this is what she said that everyone assumed that it was a drill. i asked her, do you mean fire drill? she said no, this is an active or a shooter sort of scenario. and that s what people originally assumed until they started receiving phone calls from friends and loved ones. ....
Comprise a very small slice of gun violence in america, of course. three homicides today in baltimore f i m not mistaken, a shooting of four people in savannah, georgia, today, three shot, one killed. that is the background context against which something like this happens. we should also note, jason, that i was reading an account of how that inland regional center conducts monthly shooting drills. some in that facility when they saw law enforcement assumed the way one does sometimes during a fire drill, that it must be a drill and not the real thing. in fact, that s interesting. there s a woman we spoke with who s a teacher at an elementary school about a mile away. when news came in there was a shooting, everyone assumed, at least she said, everyone assumed it was a drill. i asked her, do you mean fire drill? she said, no, this is an active ....
Here? i mean, obviously, there are very intense social strains. there s a kind of combination in france of a group that is, you know, from a different ethnic background, religious background, and also relatively socioeconomically deprived, right? all of those things sort of running together, as the background context for that kind of recruitment. what is true is that we are facing a big challenge, because, why? because we have high, high level of muslims in france. far more than in my countries. the huge majority of them are secular, they, of course, have nothing to do with the crazy killers. but as their they are not only muslims, it s very important, they are coming from arab countries. it s not like them in england. it s not like many of the muslims of usa. they are coming from arab background. ....