so detective evans went back to attorney bullock. >> is there any more? can you get me any more?he started talking about a motive. >> reporter: and that's when the whole story took a turn into "the twilight zone." >> he told me that it was concerning shane ragland being blackballed from a fraternity. >> what'd you think when you heard that? >> that's a stupid reason to kill somebody. >> reporter: the fraternity in question was sigma alpha epsilon, sae. detective evans looked through sae's records, and there it was, a pledge list with shane's name crossed off. >> and then it -- it hit. this could be the reason that we never could find out why trent was killed, is because it was something this weird. >> reporter: evans went to one of trent's closest friends and asked had he heard of this guy shane ragland? >> and he said, "shane ragland." and then i could just sort of see it at that point on his face, you know? and i let him tell the story. >> reporter: a story about an unpleasant little incident. shane was among the freshmen pledging the sae fraternity. and one day, as they were g

pascal bullock . now, author of the controversial and imaginary racism, new mr. bush now. welcome to i think i'm older now your book, an imaginary racism, islamophobia and killed has finally been published here in germany. just recently. can you explain briefly your premise in this book and why you feel the word islamophobia should not be part of the discourse. ok, cause it was a what has been caused by french colony and administrators at the beginning of the 20th century. and it has been reinvented by british muslims in the after nasa was a rush the affair. and as a goal, aussies award east to me, a tour and a great criticism of osama into an act of racism. so you should be allowed to criticize judaism christianity. buddhism is as old as you touch your criminal and you should be termed as a racist. my question is why is there a double standard? why is everything permitted to islam and not of christianity? judaism and, or quote, the sense is that criticizing a region is a right persecuting. the believe it was is a crime. she sees us as a main difference that we have to do,

obviously collins, bullock, you know, ran four points at but that was fro 40-44. it is really hard now to win senate races andtates they go the other way forresident. it's not impossible. '08 we have six of those, six senate candidates in states that voted the oth way. in 12 it was five or four and zeron 16. it was one in 2020. any off there's more opportunity, to kind of separate, but certainly eve in the house, last time chart it was what, like fiv -- 28 split tickets aer -- split house districts every 2016? >> it was 2 >> total? 2 [inaudible] >> i was like 23 balkans and four owe five 2 democrats in trp districts. it probably going to be mewhere in that very low number again. this has reall consequences for governing. if your jill biden and trying to get a senator to vote for you from a state that just voted 53, 54% from donald trump donald trump, good luck. that is not easy and it is one of the reans why the system is becoming more parliamentary at every level to which operates in washington and the way voter response to it. >> we have a question about tha fro

that was a close race between steve bullock and steve daines. we've now moved it to lean republican as steve daines, the incumbent pulls ahead. and so that does not appear to be a likely pick-up for democrats. so what's left? not much. maine for starters. that's still officially a toss-up. you'll see that susan collins is in the lead right now, but only about 60% of the vote is in. they're counting very slowly. what's really interesting in maine, where susan collins is really a survivor, really an institution, is she's actually running pretty far ahead of donald trump in that state. he is unlikely to win maine. he's got about 44% of the vote. she's got 52% of the vote in her race. so one of the few republicans tonight who is doing a whole lot better than the president is in her state. she's really on par with how joe biden is doing in that state. but we won't know what happens in maine until more of that vote is in because maine has this very unusual rank choice voting system. there's a third party candidate who is right now getting about 4% of

that was not ranked as likely that bullock would be that strong in montana.ana has elected democratic senators before. the other senator before ipmontana is a democrat. so there is a way for a democrat to win in montana, but this is one of those situations where there were higher expectations for some of the other candidacies that have not performed as well as bullock has. >> you're saying this is not quite the era of mike mansfield? >> look, they have john tester now. they had max -- for decades in the senate so montana has always had a democratic inclination towards the senate. it just needs the right candidate, looks like bullock may be the right candidate. >> i want to bring into the conversation now david plouffe, former campaign manager, and as we look forward to what we're all of course predicting to be inspiring levelheaded responsible and civically minded remarks from president trump tonight who has also already advanced told us he's going to claim victory and say democrats are steal ing it which will be cause for national ridicule for everyone who d

bullock who biden -- look who is on biden's transition team. according to "the wall street journal," at least 40 people on president bidepresident-elect bm were lobbyists. the establishment usually wins because the establishment has enough money to buy off candidates with celebrity status. donald trump did not get the magazine covers, neither did the first lady, despite her grace and beauty, because neither agreed to play ball. most people aren't strong enough to resist the temptation. but this is an old tactic by the elite. remember back in 1998? hillary got glamour shots in "vogue." and then, she was in vogue in 2007. susan rice got her shot in 2013. it's always the same. play ball on the economic issues, don't interfere with globalization, or maybe even help out with outsourcing, and we'll make you a star. we'll give you the cultural power to beat up on conservatives, but when it comes to money in foreign policy, we expect you to go along with the global elites. so, hillary and huma and susan, they all probably thought they were helping the

montana, could steve bullock beat steve daines?te but montana has a history of electing democrats to statewide office. there's a prospect for democrats there. lindsey graham's seat, certainly a lot of money behind jaime harrison. and then the other georgia seat. this is kelly loeffler, the appointed incumbent there. doug collins, republican congressman. there's a bunch of candidates here. it's almost certain to go to a runoff, and so that is the other possibility here. let's say democrats got these three. again, they need a net gain of four. let's say they missed in north carolina. let's say they missed in these three. but these two went to runoffs. not impossible. you could have two runoff senate elections. january 5th would be the date in georgia to decide control of the senate, two months after the november election. >> do we have to move to georgia if that happens? i mean literally us as a group, and how do we arrange that with like our families and bubbles and stuff? >> five winnebagos. >> oh, my gosh, that's so fun. >> i've b

. >> reporter: in montana governor steve bullock announced a statewide mask mandate. in st.osing restaurants and bars to in-person dining and encouraging people to only leave home for essentials. in minnesota, cases are on the rise and local news reports say new measures are expected to be announced by governor tim wolf today. in kentucky, the kentucky governor also expected to announce new measures today according to local reports. this comes after the state saw 33 people lose their life to the virus, the highest number of deaths in a single day in that state. >> at this point we have a few months before the vaccines come to the rescue. we want to save at many lives as we can in that interval and that's real lie ly up to all of. >> reporter: it is all about saving lives back here in michigan. to give you an idea how bad things are here, the positivity rates they're hoping to bring things sort of back to normal of 3%, it is now at more than 13% in this state. and that is what the governor and health officials are trying to bring down. kate? >> absolutely. sarah, thank you so

even in montana, governor bullock has advise on crowd sizes closing restaurants as other states are,en now and then. >> the age-old montana saying take care of your neighbor and good ol' montana common sense. think about those most vulnerable. think about my parents, 70-year-old mom, 81-year-old father. my in-laws are 77 and 88-year-old in montana. we take care of those most ad risk for covid-19. we'll have tough few months, winter months, so-called flu season. there is great optimism. thanks to great science we'll whip this pandemic. it will be ended by these vaccines. connell: yeah. we can see that now even if it is aways away. we can see it now with the vaccines. you did your part as you said. senator, thank you, sir. senator daines, thanks for coming on. we appreciate it. >> thank you. connell: hoping to increase confidence and reassurance in air travel meantime delta will continue to block the middle seats on its flights until the 30th of march, making it the only u.s. airline so far committed to extending its social distancing policy beyond early january. for members like marti

. >> reporter: in montana, governor steve bullock announced a statewide mask mandate. and in st.osing restaurants and bars to in-person dining and encouraging people to only leave home for essentials. in minnesota, cases are on the rise and local news reports say new measures are expected to be announced by governor tim walsh today. in kentucky, the kentucky governor also expected to announce new measures today, according to local reports. this comes after the state saw 33 people lose their lives to the virus, the highest number of deaths in a single day in that state. >> at this point, we've got a few months before the vaccines come to the rescue. we want to save as many lives as we can in that interval. and that's really up to all of us. >> reporter: on the vaccine front, pfizer says it's ready to seek an emergency use authorization for its version. rick bright, who left the trump administration earlier this year, now serves on president-elect joe biden's coronavirus advisory board is concerned about vaccine distribution. >> we've had very limited if any interaction with any of

after a bullock. if they play in the debit over slow reaction there. yes institutional structure did the problem with that. the w joe maybe gets a little too much. it was slow, there's just one guy in the whole place who did not jump at the right time. it happens in organization running on a skeleton staff and a skeleton budget. given that is the case, after bola the global emergency response organization. during the fox nation program, we think this drug works okay. i have preapproved this vaccine they are people have developed. unless i forget that soy six years ago. so the data good job there. but at the same time after 2008, it had a huge cut in its budget. naxals in the states for reasons that do not make sense. and, that is just putting all of us at more risk. because frankly you can criticize deborah jo, i am a journalist to do it all the time, they know that. we are supposed to do that. but this is the only game in town. i went the global collaborative effort to control the systemic disease for the w.h.o. is where you have to start. it's really

governor steve bullock who ran r president of the united states for aile.of the expected vote is in. and right now steve daines the republican will come back to washington. we are still watching the governor's race in the state of-- no, we're not watching it. that is a pick up for thean republ steve bullock was the governor, mike tmey was his lt. governor, i believe i'm right. he was running for he has lost theongressman who will now be montana's governor >> that is 80% of the vote, he put a lot of his own money. >> the race and i don't know how much. >> 7.6 million dlarses of his peshal foune he snt to win. >> a lot of money went intoa, mont remember talking to consultants, even a month out from the election that said they couldn't buy any more teevlion ads in montana. that the actual ability to buy, the inventory was basically sold ouo but hings, judy, this is a big blow to democrats in theira hopes ofng control of the senate. this is another one of those seats they put in play thankses to the fact had a popular governor as their nominee inev bullock but

talked to ini montana expected if anyone democrat would win statewide, it would be steve bullock but finding out he outperformed trump 15 points during his last race for governor, not so easy to do that when you are running for senate, which is a far more polarized environment. >> jessica taylor with the cook political report. we appreciate you hanging in there with us and updating us on those late governor races out west. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> we will let you answer the calls you are getting as results continue to come in. [laughter] >> thanks. >> to the phone lines to hear from you. -- 202-748-8920. supporters of president trump. 202-748-8921 for joe biden supporters and 202-748-8922 for all others. let's look at the presidential race, the popular vote so far. the popular vote, joe biden with 86% nationwide reported, some 67 million votes. donald trump, the popular vote, 48.6% of the vote with some 65 million plus votes reported and the balance of power in the presidential race, the electoral race still showing joe biden with 227 electoral votes and -- 22

the steve bullock race, he as a governor shut the state down early in march, he took a lot of flak forontana. but had a low coronavirus rate for all of the spring. the winter and spring. did an early reopening and got through the summer with the management of covid being a political asset. 100 money million dollars poured into the race and the most expensive but here the coronavirus is spiking. a thousand people got the virus last friday, a record in the state and the death total is now over 300. suddenly covid in the closing days is the dominant issue that's being discussed. so that's how historians i think will think about it. whatever the outcome is, coronavirus has transformed our world and our country and it's touched every aspect of the campaign especially in these closing days as it surges across the country. >> all right. john heilemann, thank you very much. >>> coming up, former national security adviser susan rice joins us with her take on tomorrow's election. and the president's reported plan to claim victory before all of the votes are counted. we'll talk about that. "morni

you have sandra bullock. you have hugh grant. you have meg ryan.ugh this time of year. i mean, any kid needs a mother. >> could it be that you need someone just as much as jonah does? >> yes. >> she prepared movies like no other director i've ever worked with. we would work for weeks prior to the beginning of shooting. every line was specifically found or written or perfected. >> it was like magic. >> magic. >> nora efron was unafraid to take something that felt familiar but then cover it in unfamiliar territory. >> you get a new wife so you can have sex with her, huh? >> i certainly hope so. >> will she scratch up your back? >> what? >> in the movies women are always scratching up the men's back and screaming and stuff when they're having sex. >> how do you know this? >> jed's got cable. >> his movie is about a widower. that i thought was a brave choice. you saw people on screen working out a problem who weren't necessarily from the traditional american family. >> i left it by the telescopes. >> the great thing about nora is when she was talking a

this is too early to call between danes and bullock. >> danes having the lead there. early to call there. this is an interesting race. and we'll see how it shakes out. here's the senate at this hour. let's see where it's all handing. 46-46. so all tied up. democrats who were hoping earlier in the night to regain control of the senate would have had to net out plus three seats if joe biden wins the white house, so it's still a lot of thes, ands and buts about that. >> the three senate seats, in my head, the party who wins two of those three probably has a greater shot. we're waiting on montana senate and we're waiting on north carolina senate. want to take you to georgia presidential. the margin's down to just 118,000. we are in the stage where we're getting all sorts of -- let me tell you something about doherty county. for instance, it's a massive amount of votes missing. 30,000 votes. when i said -- we thought it was all atlanta. we're in that stage where it's going to be hey, this is where albany county university is. there's a bunch of vote we expect to end up bei

if you continue to look on here, if you look across, steve bullock has a shot up in mont n -- montanarats are playing in the state of kansas. look what happens if it does. we saw donald trump in iowa joni ernst is fighting back there. votes haven't been counted yet. people are still voting. we'll see what happens on election night. >> the fact we're looking at kansas and south carolina and georgia is -- it's just -- it is wild, mark. thank you for taking us through that. >>> just ahead, an update from the battleground states getting last-minute attention from the candidates themselves or from top-notch supporters like former president obama. plus, the u.s. postal service warns about delays in moving mail-in ballots through the system. new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a short list of quality candidates from our resume database. claim your seventy five dollar credit, when you post your first job at indeed.com/home. it's our sharpest ever, and while some other companies would charge mor

. >> and we have to get people like mark kelly, steve bullock, mark rose, people who will reach acrosswere americans and they were making -- they were exercising political decency in their rhetoric. and that's what we can bring back. i am certain of it. i don't just wonder, i am 100% certain. >> and more people have turned out than ever. people are hungry for this, jonathan. it's everybody wants to be able to live in a civil, kinder place. >> we have less than a minute left. and i wanted to do this the last time you were on, but you're -- you're son, gideon is there. >> yeah. >> we see your arm. there he is! there's gideon! real quickly, we have -- like i said, we have less than a minute left. given what you just said about needing to reach across the aisle, what would you say to progressives for whom this idea of reaching across the aisle is an anathema, something they don't want to see happen and is a fool's errand. >> go ahead. >> no, no, go ahead. >> everybody has to reach across the aisle. everybody has to make compromise. it's like a family dinner table. everybody has progressive

we saw that there is great support for governor bullock among native voters, which represent about 7%f the population. closely.ing that race also what is happening in north carolina, there polls were extended late, so they did not start tallying votes until 8:15. up until last night, north lastina was one of trump's campaign stops, courting voters in nearby rosa county but next-door in columbus county. there have been plenty of projections that show trump can still win without the 15 votes in north carolina, but it would make it easier. those swing voters of north tribe, arehe lumbee certainly being courted. juan: i'm wondering in terms of e key issues tt you feel many of the native nations will rally around in terms of opposing trump, what are the key ones you identify? jenny: definitely in indian country, this has been a tale of two crises. voterronavirus and suppression. on the last show, i talked about one race, a hyper local one, definitely a down ballot issue in southern arizona, and tonight, we have learned that that position has gone to gabriela kelly with roughly 60% of the v

you have to look at steve daines built a very strong steve bullock in montana. you look at what's happening right now in arizona, we were seeing polls that showed that martha mcsally was losing by double digits. here we are on thursday, nbc news still not calling that race because it's still too close. so it seems that at least for many of these senators, clinging on to donald trump and remaining silent actually was a good political strategy for them, even if we found it repugnant. >> right. you know, it's interesting, it's already become a cliche in two days to say that donald trump may have lost, but trumpism has won. and i think you can examine that statement across a couple of different dimensions. the democrats have to ask themselves serious questions about centristism. and i think mika was talking about this before and you were talking about it, the way that people feel like democrats and liberals hector the rest of the country and there are other sets of questions that have to do with our information, the ecosystem and the fact that competing television n

democrats' concerns and i'm sure if you spoke with a lot of democrats running for senate like steve bullockhey would tell you a lifetime of good work was undone by the branding of the democratic party as being too extreme on the left and made it impossible for him to win that race. conor lamb said this of spanberger. spanberger was talking about something many of us are feeling today. we pay the price for these unprofessional and unrealistic comments about a number of issues whether it's about the police state or shale gas. this is, teddy white, he wrote a lot of books on the presidency. one of my favorites is america in search of itself. even with a joe biden victory, if that happens, this is going to be a democratic party in search of itself. >> there's no question about it. all the rhetoric that president trump used in his singular focus on what he called riots and looting in the street and not on the fundamental message of black lives matter and the people who are out there marching against injustice, but his focus on that appears to have worked with a lot of people. saying they want to

montana was one of those key states that democrats were targeting when they got governor steve bullockhe senate race this cycle. a saw it as a key opportunity to put montana in play and senator daines, the republican, winning 54.6% in the race. there are still votes to be counted. texas was a place the democrats were hoping to target and perhaps put on the map along with putting texas in play in the presidential race. senator john cornyn winning handedly in texas, 53.7% for the republican. hegar with 43.7%. and then there was south carolina, senator lindsey graham, so much attention on him in that race this cycle. he won handily, 55.8%. a democrat who raised well over $100 million for his bid, getting a lot of attention especially late in the cycle, jamie harrison only getting 42.9% in that district. hissey graham, staying in -- saying in his comments after declaring victory in taking his supporters, noting that democrats were wasting money in south carolina. all that money that was raised for democrats. on how bad this night was for congressional democrats when it came to what they th

. ♪ bullock.uck schumer and other democratic officials begged him to get this this race after he decided to pack it up in the presidential primary so that is. >> colorado so you have two failed presidential democratic presidential candidates picking colorado and maybe bullock in montana who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into those races. >> does it say anything jamie harrison and lindsey in the end it wasn't so close. >> right. >> but for a while it was sort of neck and neck for jamie harrison seemed to have a really good shot at it, it appears. >> he did. and this is another race like north carolina where deep pocketed republican groups came charging into the rescue. they poured tens of millions of dollars into the race, you had lindsey graham himself going on fox news every day. >> was it a ground game or an air war? >> it seems like democrats did very poorly at turning out their voters. >> yes. >> i mean, in south carolina it is always difficult for democrats to get over that hump, bu

> this is another race, this was a solid republican until republicans were able to convince steve bullock. he is virtually the only democrat that would have been able to put this race into play. steve daines was cruising to reelection until that decision. this is going to be a very close race. they switched to all mail-in voting. we could see a substantial count. i am not sure we will know a result. republicans and democrats expect this to be one of the closest races of the night. >> this first interview, michigan. you have that leaning democratic. rated 12 republican held seats as competitive versus just two for democrats. it shows you how much republicans were on defense. michigan has been a place where we have seen a lot of late republican spending as they are trying to force another democrat on defense in another state. john james the republican who ran and 2018, competing against the incumbent, gary peters. this is the state, we are waiting to see with the presidential results are. bysident trump was losing 7-8 points, that is a lot harder for john james to make up. republicans think

he defeats former governor of montana, steve bullock.oni ernst in iowa very closely tied her re-election efforts to president trump and winds up paying off. she defeats theresa greenfield who vast ly outfunded her. jamie harrison, a record-breaking fundraiser. tonight lindsey graham literally said you wasted your money. he wins re-election in the state of south carolina and it wasn't very close. let's look at where things stand for the races that are still being fought over. firstarizona. mark kelly, he's leading incumbent martha mcsally by 176,000 votes with 82% of the vote in. democrats have to be happy about that, but i'll show you why the math still doesn't add up favorably for them just a second. here is the most expensive race in senate history. more than $240 million spent in north carolina. it's not paying off for democrats. tom tillis, the incumbent, leading. he leads by a comfortable 96,000 plus vote margin. let's take a look at georgia. this race also was supposed to be really competitive according to polling. doesn't look tha

and steve daines used it against steve bullock ruthlessless and effectively, and it had impact.o go far left. maybe they think that's what the answer is to all of their problems. maybe it's that they become even more conservative. that's a battle that's going to be waged by the democratic party. and as barack obama showed us, there is no right answer. it may be beyond ideology. it may just be, being a strong leader, like barack obama, or a strong leader like ronald reagan, or as his followers see him, a strong leader like donald trump. as bill clinton said, a man re-elected twice himself, it's better in politics to be strong and wrong than to be right and meek. and, my god, that's playing out in a way that many democrats and many other americans think is just absolutely terrible right now. >> jim vandehei, thank you very much. we'll be following, of course, as we go to break, the results coming in. we will let you know of any changes, but also, to touch on the conversation that you guys were just having, just as donald trump and joe biden were on the ballot, so, too, was the pan

iowa a conservative who is facing a tough challenger you also have in montana dane's verses steve bullock the former governor there the governor there as well as very popular and those are a lot of the contested seats we're seeing also thom tillis conservative in north carolina that's another seat that we're going to keep an eye on as well as in alabama doug jones is probably going to lose to head football coach. in alabama as well so that's going to flip from democrat to republican as expected right as expected no surprises there fair all right so we have our team correspondent sweet out of our studio in los angeles joining for us with what's going on there natasha. ok even to you as polls are getting ready to close here in california authorities are boarding up businesses even enacting a curfew and while there's a chance we may not know the outcome of the election this evening officials say they want to ensure safety and a possible and rust curfews are in full effect in some areas of los angeles and san francisco the l.a. police department they're recommending businesses closed early as