do you want to tell us a little about craig lewis and just that story? . he was -- this was a love story. and these were two people, and he was a guy who made things work better. he was a healthy guy and he got sicker and sicker and sicker, and took the doctors a long time to know what was wrong with him. he had amyloidosis. he was in total organ failure. you can't just be a surgeon and way okay, we're going to try an artifical heart and put it it this guy. bud went it the fda, you have to go through and get emergency use permission to put this in a person and lewis. i think one of the interesting things about the book is when faced with having more time. no one knows how much more time or dying in a short time, most of the people i wrote about opted with more time and lewis was fascinated with how the men would work and let's try. and he lived for about, i think, three weeks or so with in artificial heart before the disease killed him. and that's one of the things that interested me about medical experimentation is that in order to -- you have to try thes

lewis. we were talking about him a minute ago. he has been unseated. we're projecting angie craigefeats jason lewis, and what that means, we have 25 democratic pickups here on the target list. we look at the seats republicans were going after. they pick up two, one in iron range, one in california. that gives the democrats the net gain of 23. that's what they needed to gain control. >> amy klobuchar was live on the air saying democrats will flip house seats in minnesota. we see that there. we also see democrat tim walz who ran for governor taking the house, too. >> over 100 women elected to the house. >> for the first time ever. >> yep. >> hey, wow. that seems like we should have a cake or something. what we do have is lawrence o'donnell in california for us. lawrence, the polls have been closed for 22 minutes. we have seen a call in the governors' race. gavin newsom will be the new governor of california. dianne feinstein has also been handed the race. you were bullish on democratic races saying you thought the democrats would flip a lot of those seats in california. how do you f

and she will soon be congresswoman angie craig, because she's ousted republican jason lewis from congress. in new york state, john faso ran ads against his opponent, who was a freaking lawyer and a rhodes scholar, trying to make his constituents believe he was some kind of crazy gang member who was only running for congress so he could, like, beat people up in the district or something. it was insane. it was very blatantly racist. john faso lost his seat in congress to that democratic candidate, antonio delgado. in michigan, mike bishop last night lost his seat to a democratic candidate named elissa slotkin, another cia veteran. do you remember that ad that highlighted the national security backgrounds of eight first-time female democrat conditions running this year? elissa slotkin was in that ad. five of the eight women in that ad won their seats last night and ousted republican incumbents. in california, republican congressman steve knight just lost his seat to democrat katie hill. she will be staking steve knight's seat in the house. in illinois, republican congressman ra

her name is angie craig, the democrat who has ousted jason lewis from congress. in new york state, john faso ran ads against his opponent, who was a freaking lawyer and a rhodes scholar, trying to make his constituents believe he was a crazy gang member only running so that he could beat people up. january faso lost his seat in congress to that democratic candidate, antonio delgado. mike bishop lost his seat to a democratic candidate named alyssa slotkin, another cia veteran. do you remember that ad that highlighted the national security back grounds of eight first-time female democrats who were run thing year? she was one of the women. five of the eight women in that ad won their seats last night and ousted republican incumbents. in california, republican congressman steve knight just lost his seat to democrat katie hill. she will be caking his seat in the house. in illinois, republican congressman randy holgren lost his seat to a nurse, lauren underwood. neither of them were on anybody's radar. lauren underwood came out of nowhere and won that seat through shee

that's where jason lewis is facing a challenge from angie craig. joined from red wing, minnesota, by kevin tibbles. in the last week, as i understand it, you have visited half of that state's congressional districts. what have you found there? >> reporter: well, craig, yes, we have put a few road miles on the old rental car over the last week from duluth down to red wing, rochester yesterday, obviously minneapolis, st. paul area. and you know, minnesota really could be one of the bellwethers tonight here in the second as you just mentioned, there is a tight race, and up in the eighth as well. so minnesota really could be swinging in either direction this evening, and i just happen to have one of the -- who has come out of the library today. the polls open about 7:00. barry sipplemeyer. he is a veteran of the navy, and i'm just wondering what your thoughts were this morning when you marked x? >> i just thought it was a good time to be voting and glad to be able to vote. >> there is an incumbent here, the incumbent is the republican. i'm just wonderi

districts in the country, including minnesota's second, where incumbent jason lewis is facing quite a challenge from angie craig from red wing, minnesota, nbc's kevin tibbles. in the last week, you visited half of the state's congressional districts. what have you learned, and what are you seeing there today? did you try to get into that giant shoe wiat the red wing factory? >> reporter: first off, katy, we put a lot of road miles on the rental car. second, red wing shoes do come from here. third, i did have my picture taken in front of the giant shoe. but more important issues at hand here, this voting station has been doing a bang-up business since 7:00 this morning. interestingly enough, when we were up in the eighth by duluth, that is a district that could switch from democrat to republican. well, down here in the second, a lot of people are hoping it's going to go the other way around and go from republican to democrat. i'm joined by the fritzes. deb, how did you vote today and why? >> democrat. mostly on moral and ethical reasons. >> reporter: would you like to define for me, mr. fritz, what does that mea

and second district in minnesota, angie craig has defeated jason lewis, the incumbent.pered by his career on talk radio. >> he said some things about me too and immigrants that didn't sit well with people in the suburbs of minneapolis. when we talk about whether trump was successful about turning the conversation to immigration, and scaring people with the caravan, minnesota has the largest proportion of refugees in the country, they just elected the first muslim woman to congress. and they just said no to this guy. >> this is a seat the democrats expected. but you may have a case where the democrat was a little too liberal, but the republican was a little too conservative. >> she's much more liberal than that district. and guns were a big issue, we saw the pro-gun control groups spend a lot of money targeting jason lewis. >> and from new jersey, the seventh district, tom malinowski has defeated leonard lance. chris christie was talking about that earlier. i want to come to you in a second. but first, stephanie cutter, malinowski, we saw a lot of veterans of the obama a

lewis, former conservative talkw host. these two have run against each other, angie craig, who is a lesbian and mother of i think four, sheis an interesting character trying to do this agn, right now e is within sights of her goal in a suburban district. >> first district in minnesota what are we seeing here so fr? >> here we see the opposite right? i want to remind everyone this was a demt.ocratic distr all right, so if jim haggedorn the republican continues to hold this lead this would be a republican house flip. they don't have manys opportunitr that this year but this is one they may take advantage of. y is is a reapressive race, this man has run for this seat three different ties an he's up against a very strong democratic contender, bronze star leader. >> we want talk about the balance of power so far, filling in realtime, lisa, what we are seeing there, a lot of red. >> it's close rlly, it's really close and people can't zoom in but can on your computer, but you can on your website, this is all california. so that is good for democrats potentially. >> this is going to fill in in realtime, going to throw it to judy.

craig of men mfpblet congresswoman elect monica escobar of texas. congresswoman elect katie hill of california. adam schiff of california. joyce beatty of ohio. and congressman john lewis of georgia will close out the seconding nomination. lots of speeches under way. it may be some time before we hear the results of what we understand will be a secret ballot for democrats this afternoon. let's get to your calls and comments. your thoughts on the democratic leadership of the 116th congress. we go first to east peoria, illinois. hello there. caller: yes. this is jo ann, i fully endorse nancy pelosi. host: what do you like most about her? caller: she's got a long history of standing up for the people. she speaks very eloquently. she really knows her stuff. she's just well-rounded and very seasoned. total respect for her. host: democrats only. we hear from greg next in baldwin, missouri. good afternoon. caller: good afternoon. i'm in favor of nancy pelosi. but i'm not in favor of democrats using republican talking points in an effort to try to oust nancy pelosi. and that's the point -- that's the problem with the democrats. nancy e going to get pelosi, but they have nobody