men were only in the legislatures, state legislatures only men in congress. by 1917-18 janet rankin the only woman, the first woman elected to congress. only one. when referendum at the state level, it is only men making these decisions. having men allies, we see some very brave men allies really step up in nashville in my story. yes. men were important. >> you have somebody involved in the miniseries. how did that happen? >> is i get a producer state hillary rodham clinton. she read the book. really sounded an important story. a story we should know. a story that speaks to us today. a lot of the themes that arise in the book. voting rights, women's rights or dark money in politics. it is all talked about. she says, let's bring this story to a wide audience and that is what we are doing. >> how do you react when secretary clinton calls and says she wants to be involved in your book? >> take a deep breath. i was thrilled. she has been a wonderful and supportive partner. >> the women's hour is now in paperback. elaine white, thank you for your time. >> thank yo

it was retained in 1871 by one vote in the legislature. fast-forward 17 years. wyoming territory is wanting to become a state. washington, d.c. says no one else in the world or in the united states is giving women these kinds of rights. you need to resend that act and then we will let you become a state. and we said don't care will not become a state unless we can hold all of these rights our women have had. when you talk about that wyoming had the first woman voter in the world in 1869, the first them in on a jury in 1870, first women bailiff -- woman bailiff, first women justice of the peace. all of those could happen because wyoming had given that right to women. it is remarkable. it is a fact no one ever knows about. how great is it we can tell this story? this is now 150th anniversary of that gift to women and men by the men of wyoming territory. announcer: our cities tour staff recently traveled to laramie, wyoming to learn about its rich history. watch more video from laramie and other stops on the tour, visit c-span.org/citiestour. you are watching ameri

otherwise it goes to the state legislature and the legislature, this is concerning democrats, they're dploes this race. there is a scenario where the democrat wins by a deliver in the popular vote, but the districts are probably going to favor republicans and the republican legislature will turn around and it will be like a popular vote scenario. there is litigation there. but it is an interesting dynamic that you don't see in any other state and if you're looking at those returns, and you're seeing a close rate in mississippi, and if you're a democrat and the democrats have a chance, keep in mind. >> one democrat is fighting to stay in the 2020 race, julian castro will join me live, and we're expecting new transcripts from witnesses in the impeachment inquiry right now. you're watching velshi and ruhle live on msnbc. ruhle live on msnbc. it's not just easy. it's having-jerome-bettis- on-your-flag-football-team easy. go get 'em, bus! ohhhh! [laughing] c'mon bus, c'mon! hey, wait, wait, wait! hey man, i got your flag! i got your flag, man! i got your flag! it's geico easy. with license

it has been removed from the state legislatures. it's been removed from the federal legislature. that's a momentous thing to do, and that was something done, oh, well, the first amendment must mean money as well as individual votes. we came within a hair of that same thing happening in the first of the affordable care act cases when justice roberts wrote his famous opinion saying, well, we can't quite do this under the customers clause. it's only a fifth of the gdp, so that's not enough, and no one can tell me to buy broccoli, but we will do it under the tax clause, and then we've had other things, well, suppose -- suppose justice roberts had sided with the other four justices, and the affordable care act was not just called out for being unwise legislation. congress had passed it, you know, the democratically elected part of our government had passed it, but if the court had said the constitution itself forbids this kind of experiment in health care reform, that would have had exactly the kind of paralyzing effect that judge sutton is bemoaning. and i actually totally agree with

and i said, well, i've been in a legislature, in the state legislature, and just assumed that my good counterparts on the other side would pick it up and move it, especially since we've had some joint hearings and, of course, my finest counterpart was a democrat named ron mazzolli. >> it wasn't until 1986 that finally the simpson-has olie act, immigration and reform control act was signed into law. this was a program done in the early 1990's. it was a radio program. it was between al simpson and ted kennedy, again bipartisan, and they would take one issue and just a couple of minutes, they would do a little back and forth on it. and so, for example, healthcare. >> the democrats have a reform even you can support, al, since you have nothing of your own. it imposes strict controls on costs and requires all employers to ensure their workers pay into a public fund for comparable coverage. think hard, al. president bush was at the economic summit in london. all the other g-7 nations have sensible healthcare plans to protect their citizens. why not the u.s.a.? >> ted, the other six countrie

he was the longest serving legislature at that time. i would knock on doors and not say anything disparaging about him i would say we appreciate what mr. kuhn has done all these years i always just talked about me. i did not talk about him. i was fortunate enough to get elected. and then fast forward a little bit i'm in the legislature a few years and in south carolina whenever they were passing legislation it was done by a voice vote. one day there was a piece of legislation that gave legislatures pay razors. we will decide what the public needs to see and what they don't. i remember going home that night and talking to my husband in saint if i can't even get legislated votes on the record one of my doing here and he said thing go fight i went across the state of south carolina. only 8% were on the record. of all the bills passed and the in the senate only 1% were on the record. if you did not know how your senator voted 99 percent of the time how did you know who to vote -- vote for when you get to the polls. my first year in office i

[laughter] >> and the legislature often, that is how it came to be. >> and you've been in office? paul, and weith used to have meetings in his office. there were three of us. it was 1978, i had two years -- [inaudible] >> they came up with the idea that we would computerize our corporate position. we made the model for the rest of the country. paul did all of that. whenever he calls me to do something, i am there. >> i'll get him to call you. >> he can tell you a few things. do you wish to have your middle initial on the ballot? >> i've never done this before. some candidates do and some candidates don't. >> i remember being on the ballot in massachusetts. >> you don't remember -- you can let us know. ok, so. put your signature there. it hasn't actually changed since 1980. >> there we go. >> we have the exact wording for the u.s. constitution. this was put in, and we did this because there had been some issues about whether a candidate should have to have a birth certificate. i just the language. did have a person, a person who filed once who -- someone came in and said, that pers

in 1949, the legislature for the first time had a separate column put on the ballot. so in 1952, it was the first time that new hampshire voters could vote. and since that ballot, the direct vote, every president since then, every person has one new hampshire primary. a lot of pressure. so eisenhower was the first. for each president, it shows which primary they won. and this president was not elected, but he didn't win in new hampshire. right along up until today. so the -- there's been 17 presidential primaries since 1852, and of the 17, 14 of the winners became president that year, the other three came in second. every single one has at least won one primary. we celebrate it. this guy did it in 1913. this happened in 49. and this happened in 1975. this guy. pictures of what they look like when they did it. in 197 56789 there was an attempt to have it the way it was across the nation. they wanted to change new hampshire laws. so this is -- i told mayor pete, our first primary will go one week after indiana's. same as minnesota. minnesota got rid of it and indiana so

and then the legislature often -- the secretary of state -- that's how it came to be. in the 1970's. >> and you've been in office? >> i was -- i served with paul guthrie. >> is that right? >> yeah, and we used to have meetings in his office, there were three of us that were 30 or younger. so paul would have the meeting. he only served -- he was out in 1978, so i had two years. >> you know he retired a few years ago. >> like four years ago, he asked me to come down and see him. when he went to work for them, he came up with the idea that he would computerize our corporate position so we were the first state agency, and he did it basically to make it a model for the rest of the country, paul did all of that. >> wow. i see. i see. >> so whenever he calls me, to do something, i'm there. [laughter] >> i'll get him to call you. [laughter] >> he can tell you a few things. do you wish to have your middle initial on the ballot? [indiscernible] some candidate do and some candidates don't. so if you want to do it, when you were on the ballot in massachusetts. >> i don't remember

the legislature is usually in resource. it is a time when you drink tea and sit on your porch and nashville became the center of the political universe of the united states for several weeks in the summer of 1920 because tennessee might be the last and deciding state to ratify the 19th amendment and if the tennessee legislature did, then women across the country, in every state, in every election for the first time, all women, would have the right to vote. and it was all coming down to tennessee and it got really wild. >> how many women were in america at that point, voting age? >> about 27 million women were of voting age. now, of course, not all would vote and as we know for african-american women and for asian women and for native american women, they would not be allowed to vote under the 19th-- the 19th amendment did give the vote to all women, but jim crow laws in the south and other state laws denied the vote to quite a few women. quite a sizable minority, but 27 million women were eligible to vote and no one knew ho

in 1929 the legislature for the first time at a separate calling on the ballot. in addition -- in 1952 for the first time new hampshire voters passed that ballot, a direct vote, every president since then has won at least one new hampshire primary. a lot of pressure. eisenhower was the first and for each president it showed which primary they won and this president was not elected, he didn't win in new hampshire, right up to today and so there has been 17 presidential primaries since 1852. 14 of the winners became president and the other 3 in the second place and they won a primary. everyone has at least one primary but this guy did it in 1913, this happened in 1949, this happened in 75 there are pictures of what they look like so 75, there was an attempt to have it be new england primary. the one that changed new hampshire law to do whatever we could service is the centennial and it would not be -- mayor pete in indiana, first primary was a 1-week detail in indiana and in indiana, and minnesota got rid of this in 1920, standing alone and we had it for 50 years a

so let me first say something about the legislature. as i've said, the framers fully expected intense pulling and hauling between congress and the executive. unfortunately, just in the past few years, we have seen this-- these conflicts take on an entirely new character. immediately after president trump won election, opponents inaugurated what they called the resistance, and they rallied around an explicit strategy of using every tool and maneuver to sabotage the functioning of the executive branch ap his administration. now, resistance is the language used to describe insurgency against rule imposed by an occupying military power. it obviously connotes -- it obviously connotes that the government is not legitimate. this is a very dangerous and indeed, incendiary notion to import into the politics of a democratic republic. [applaus [applause] >> what it means is that instead of viewing themselves as the loyal opposition, as opposing parties have done in this country for over 200 years, they essentially see themselves as engaged in a wa

i believe we have the first transgender state legislature, first muslim legislature, first indian americanmigrant who is a state legislature in this case. i think what we're seeing is partly based on what's happening in the 2020 race. i mean, it is the 800 pound gorilla in the room. i think it's partly what's happening on a state by state level. if you look at the difference between, for instance, virginia and mississippi, it's largely who lives in those states. so, this is still a story for 2020 that it's so important for the candidates to get the unlikely voters to come out and to get those swing voters to come out and vote for them. >> and lonnie, we keep saying this is an off year election. sort of sleepy elections. there's only state measures on the ballot. if that's part of the story for 2020, is it the level of enthusiasm among democrats that seems unprecedented especially if you look at virginia? >> yeah, i think vurj virj is a challenging state for republicans that's been trending away. donald trump lost the state by five points back in 2016. so, there are a lot of reasons why i t

the man is he was a writer, following the raid on harpers ferry he addressed the kentucky state legislature to calm fears and keep them from immediately joining in this secession movement. his speech to the kentucky state legislature was so popular, it was published into a book that went through 12 editions and was called "unions -- that is -- that is the short title for it. he had also given a glimpse into his beliefs of a slave master's responsibility to his slaves. after james craik left for louisville, kentucky in 1844, he sold the home to a local businessman named isaac reed. the gentleman lived here for about a decade before selling it to the pass and family. george patton and susan patton came to charleston in 1856. george patton's family was filled with military leaders. great-grandfather, who fell shortly after the battle of princeton, due to injuries georged their -- our patton is probably his grandson, also named george patton, from world war ii, the famous field marshal george patton. area, weame into this also see an industrialized method of slavery that was unique in that it w

but we also brought people with us and flipped the legislature of the house every single time i led theicket. that is what we want to do here to get things done. i'm just excited to be here on this historic day at this historic place to make a historic filing for president of the united states. so, let's go out there and win this. thank you, new hampshire. [applause] ♪ ♪ [inaudible conversations] sen. klobuchar: thank you. ok, i'm ready. ok, here we are. >> thank you, good luck. sen. klobuchar: thank you. >> thanks for coming. [inaudible conversations] sen. klobuchar: there we are. exactly. [inaudible conversations] ♪ [inaudible conversations] ♪ [inaudible conversations] [video clip] ♪ [inaudible conversations] >> we were trying to get your staff to set that up. sen. klobuchar: i lead a lot of these. >> i know you do. we would love to hear you on all democracy questions. sen. klobuchar: there we go. thank you. thank you. thank you so much. >> won you a voter. sen. klobuchar: i promise that i will. we are doing well. >> what a day. >> special day. >> look at my hair. >> one more. >> than

the democrats control the senate, the legislature.lawrence, you're looking at a blue state. >> that is what professor larry sabato said in a tweet tonight. we're going to go to him now. steve, we'll be back to you. the director of the university of virginia center for politics. larry, a closer look now at what's happened in virginia. what is the meaning of the election for virginia going forward? does this put democrats in control of the next redistricting in virginia after the next census? >> yes, they're in charge now. they have a comfortable margin in the house of delegates. their margin in the senate may actually go up. there are three very close races. two look likely to me anyway to go to republicans. but one may well go to democrats. so that's a cushion in the state senate and, of course, the governor doesn't leave office until 2022 or january 2022 and the redistricting will be done in 2021. so this is a tremendous gain for democrats and it's, as steve was saying, it's hard to believe that the democrats control everything in vi

the fact that she had been in the legislature. he particular, i think it was important that a judge had legislative experience. understood what it was to be a legislator, so they were not making the citizens in a vacuum the fact she had had that experience in the legislation, understood what making law is, something judges are not supposed to do. but understands how the representation of the people works into the law themselves so they would have an appreciation of what their job was to do in interpreting the law. all of these things but i think especially we heard today about her early life, the fact she worked on a ranch, i cannot help but think it became a major factor and ronald reagan thinking very highly of her. (laughs) >> evan, i guess i want to ask you to amplify that. what was the, what was the secret sauce that she brought to, to, the selection process, and is it that president reagan responded to? >> i spoke to ken starr who was william smith's special assistant. he wrote a contmemo. from the point of view of the attor

but, we also brought people with us and flipped the legislature of the house every single time i lead the ticket. that is what we want to do here to get things done. i'm just excited to be here on this historic day at this historic place to make a historic filing for president of the united states. so, let's go out there and win this. thank you, new hampshire. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> dental hygienist-owned business. >> thank you. ok, i'm ready. ok, here we are. >> thank you, good luck. >> thank you. >> thanks for coming. >> there we are. exactly. >> we are going to come around. be careful. >> thank you. >> hi. ok, thank you. >> win big. >> this is very cool. ok. thank you. >> get a win. >> thank you. ok. >> thank you. >> my mom is a teacher. >> we are a big group. >> great. oh, ok. thank you. >> hi there. yeah, thank you. ok, thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. one second., minnesota. >> that is great. >> that is my mom. >> ok. >> we have met. welcome back to merrimack county. here you go. sorry. >> you have a great daughter. >> today is the sixth. >> she won't jump in these lines but i will do

we also brought people with us and flip to the legislature of the house every single time i lead theicket. that's what we want to do things -- that's what we want to do here to get things done. i am excited to be here on this historic day at this historic filingo make an historic for president of the united states. let us go out there and win this. thank you, new hampshire. ♪ >> thank you. . thanks. >> thank you. >> there we are. exactly. >> here we go. >> ok. on camera. >> we are going to come around. ♪ >> be careful. >> thank you. >> right there. >> i never do this. >> cool, ok. thank you. >> thank you so much. we have to win. >> thank you. >> that is great. >> good luck. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> all right, thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> ok, thank you. >> a great. >> some people can get in front. thank you. >> thank you. ok, thank you. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thanks so much. a minnesota family. >> ok, that's great. >> that's my mom. >> ok. >> welcome back, senator. here you go. here yo

every seat in the virginia legislature was on the ballot tonight. is on the ballot. every state house seat. every state senate seat. democrats control the statewide offices already in virginia, but this meant control of the legislature was on the ballot as well. while the associated press has now called it for the democrats in the state legislature, democrats have flipped enough seats tonight to gain control of the statehouse and the state senate in virginia. that big double flip tonight means that democrats have control of all the statewide offices in the state. they've also got control of the state legislature in the state and that puts democrats in complete control of virginia state government for the first time in 26 years. of course the further big news tonight is out of kentucky where the democratic state attorney general andy beshear has turfed out republican incumbent governor matt bevin. nbc news has called andy beshear the apparent winner in this governor's race, which will send, frankly, shock waves through not just kentucky politics but national politics

i asked the legislature to come back to virginia to richmond on july 9th.hey came back and spent less than 90 minutes. they were paying attention to that. and said enough is enough. and people came out yesterday. i think they're very pleased with the progress that we as democrats have made over the last couple of years and they really want us to continue working on that progress. >> you brought up a couple of things. first you talked about national politics. you didn't mention the president's name but you were referring to him. so what role do you think he played in the election outcome? >> well, he's been terrible for our economy in virginia. and we have done well despite him. things like the coal mines that are shutting down in the southwest, he promised those individuals that he would help them and he's done absolutely nothing for our farmers. i grew up on a farm on virginia's eastern shore. we grew soybeans. the tariffs have hurt us tremendously. so he's made a lot of promises and just hasn't been there for the people of virginia. and they're smart and

democrats took control, though, of both houses of the virginia legislature for the first time in a generation and also swept local elections from missouri to

but, we also brought people with us and flipped the legislature of the house every single time i leadhe ticket. that is what we want to do here to get things done. i'm just excited to be here on this historic day at this historic place to make a historic filing for president of the united states. so, let's go out there and win this. thank you, new hampshire. [applause] ♪ ♪ hygienist-owned business. [inaudible conversations] sen. klobuchar: thank you. ok, i'm ready. ok, here we are. >> thank you, good luck. sen. klobuchar: thank you. >> thanks for coming. sen. klobuchar: there we are. exactly. [inaudible conversations] >> we are going to come around. be careful. >> thank you. sen. klobuchar: hi. ok, thank you. >> win big. sen. klobuchar: this is very cool. ok. thank you. [inaudible conversations] get a win. thank you.har: ok. [inaudible conversations] sen. klobuchar: thank you. teacher. is a >> we are a big group. sen. klobuchar: great. ok. you. [inaudible conversations] sen. klobuchar: hi there. yeah, thank you. ok, thank you. >> thank you. sen. klobuchar: thank you. one second. ♪ >>

democrats took control of virginia's state legislature.andy beshear has a narrow lead over republican governor matt bevin. bevin has not conceded. republicans were able to hold on to the governorship in mississippi. >>> and now to the story of a writer whose life was violently cut short but whose life's work will endure thanks to the woman he loved. here's chip reid. >>> several shots have been fired -- >> reporter: on june 28th, 2018, a gunman with a longtime grudge against the "capital gazette" newspaper in annapolis, maryland, walked into its offices and opened fire. five people were killed including 56-year-old sports writer john mcnamara who had been married to andrea shamblee. when we met her recently she was wearing his press pass. is that something you wear frequently? >> i wear it almost every day. >> reporter: a reflection of their mutual total devotion. >> he was devoted to his family. he was devoted to his writing. and lucky for me he was devoted to me. >> reporter: he was also devoted to an unfinished book, "the capital of bas

cnn projecting democrats will flip both chambers of the state legislature, taking back control of these as well as the senate. back with me now from los angeles, law school professor jessica levin son, and former mitt romney public policy adviser lanhee chen. even though the secretary of state in kansas has called the result, the governor is refusing to concede. here he is. >> this is a close, close race. we are not conceding this race by any stretch, not a chance. and here's the thing. understand this, though. understand this. we want the process to be followed, and there is a process. we know for a fact that there have been more than a few irregularities. they are very well corroborated, and that's all right. what they are exactly, how many, which ones, and what effect, if any, they have will be determined according to law. >> so, lanhee, you know, to raise that issue without evidence, it seems kind of like a trumpian play even towards the very end, what, to smear the results? >> well, look, i think it's a trumpian edge to a message which is a perfectly reasonable one, you know, whe

these types of trade-offs must be carefully thought out before the legislatures act. >> host: sinan aral is a a professor of institute for data systems and society at the massachusetts institute of technology. he's also a professor of management there. afsa, if you could though, will you go back and defined again differential privacy? >> guest: so differential privacy is a technique from computer science that anonymize his individual level data such that it can't be backwards created. you can discover who the person was in in a data set of indivil level data from the data that you have. it is a set of techniques that guarantee with some confidence the inability for the possessor of information to figure out what in individual identity is. >> host: is it your goal to explore what happened in 2016 or to prevent it from happening in 2020? >> guest: we are much more interested in preventing it happening in the future, what i think that what we need to understand is that we have a broad comprehensive and sweeping instance of manipulation in 2016 that is ripe for study. in other words, to unde

1928 they would be on the ballot and they could be grouped [inaudible conversations] in 1949 the legislature for the first time have a separate one put on the ballot. in 1952 it was the first time in hampshire voters [inaudible] every president since then [inaudible] they show which primaries they one, and this president was not elected but he did win new hampshire. but right until the day. there's been 17 presidential primaries end of the 17, 14 were winners that became president that here than they won the primary. every single one. [inaudible] and 75 [inaudible] one week after indiana they gave up speed to over 50 years that wasn't really significant, but we still have it. other states one by one but get rid of the primary. but the people here wanted to keep it. it changed in a lot of other places. [inaudible] if we had to have the primary on the day you have to change the meeting. people didn't want to keep moving it up. and the first language but the governor of the times has no. they would be too tempted to use this to their advantage so they said no. [inaudible] we used to have meetin

the state legislature.emember this story from a couple of years ago, 51-49, republicans lead the state, basically the seat that decided the state legislature came down to a coin flip or a drawing, i should say. can democrats flip that? can democrats flip the state senate? they're only one seat off there. to put that in bigger perspective, it's the story of virginia going from a republican bastion, these are presidential election results going back to the '60s. it switched in 2008. if democrats can win a state legislature in virginia tonight on top of the governorship, on top of these presidential results, you're really seeing the transformation of virginia from red to blue. >> and virginia, such a key indicator. guess who was in virginia on sunday. joe biden exchange with terry mcauliffe, the very popular former democratic governor who had even been talked about as a possible presidential contender but wouldn't run once biden was running because they're both moderates. i would keep an eye on terry mcauliffe

one was done by a democratic legislature. it was a really extreme gerrymander. it deprived people in their respective states of the opportunity to have their votes mean anything. it was a kind of rigging elections. it was represented as picking their voters rather than voters picking the representatives. nobody really argued that this was constitutional, done in this extreme way. the majority thought that the court just couldn't get involved in it. manageablesented no standards for the court to decide when a gerrymander had gone too far. i thought that that was craig wong -- quite wrong. courts around the country had actually worked pretty hard in developing exactly the kinds of manageable standards that the court, that the majority claimed to be demanding. it wasn't so hard to figure out exactly how these cases should be litigated. and when it was that some gerrymander's should be declared off-limits, like these ones. it was perfectly obvious that these two should have been invalidated. so, i did. i think i wrote a strong dissent. hope, that was i not so much a

democrats taking over the legislature for the first time in almost three decades. tell us what you've seen on the ground, because one thing that hasn't been on the ground has been president trump himself. he has avoided the state. and common sense gun laws have been so important to virginians. >> sure, yeah. president trump remains pretty unpopular in virginia. now, there's a lot of parts of the state where he's very popular, but overall, though, especially in the urban areas and the suburbs, trump has not been popular. for the first time in 26 years, the democrats are going to in january have the governor's mansion and both chambers of the legislature. this momentum started in 2015 when they flipped 15 seats in the house of delegates, and that was almost entirely due to a backlash against trump. virginia was the only southern state that trump didn't win. then last year, the congressional delegation in virginia flipped from seven to four republican to seven to four democrat. three republicans lost seats last year in congress. and then this year, with a lot of money

to legislature, trying o get ratification. at first, it was going along swimmingly. a drumroll of approval from i think three states that rushed to be the first to ratify. they now stand in history together because nobody made it in ahead of others. >> the same thing happened with the e.r.a. >> and then they parade through the states, and by then there is groundswell of what we call the anti-suffrage forces that also see this as the big battle of their lifetime. they marshal for it, and none more powerful than of course the lobby, that fears that the prohibition, the temperance movement which was fueled really by women, that women have other things up their sleeves, and they will come with all this social legislation that will be their businesses. everyone is marching, to sending these state capitals, and they get the 35. but they need 36. and everyone understands that tennessee is going to be the last state. they either make it in tennessee, or they don't. there.eryone goes many of the key players take inms at the ermitage ho

to legislature trying to get ratification. at first it was going along swimmingly, you know, a drum roll of approval. some some five -- i think three states rushed to be the first to ratify and they now stand in history together because nobody made it in ahead of the others. >> same thing happened with the e.r.a. >> but then -- and then they parade through the states. by then there's a ground swell of what we call the anits, anti-suffrage forces also see this as the big battle of their lifetime. and they marshal for it. and none more powerful, of course, than the liquor lobby that fears that the prohibition, the temperance movement, which was fueled really by women, that women have other things up their sleeve. that's just the opening wedge and they're going to come with all this social legislation that's going to be very costly to their business and other's businesses. everyone is marshalling, descending on the state capitols and they get to 35, but they need 36. and everyone understands that tennessee is going to be the last

and so, these types of trade-offs must be carefully thought out before the legislatures act.t thes a professor institute for data systems and society at the massachusetts institute of technology. he is also a professor of management there. repressor, if you could know, would you go back and a fine again differential privacy? privacy is aal technique from computer science that anonymize is individual so it cannot be backwards created. you cannot discover who the person was in a data set of individual level data from the data that you have. and it is a set of techniques that guarantee with some confidence the inability for the possessor of the information to figure out what any individual identity is >>. is it your goal to explore what happened in 2016 or to prevent it from happening in 2020? >> we are much more interested in preventing it happening in the future but i think that what we need to understand is that we have a broad comprehensive and sweeping instants of manipulation in 2016 that is right for a study -- right for for a study. understanding how it was done in the p

every seat in the virginia legislature was on the ballot tonight. every state house seat, every state senate seat. democrats controlled the statewide offices already in virginia, but this meant that control of the legislature was on the ballot as well. while the associated press has now called it for the democrats in the state legislature. democrats have flipped enough seats tonight to gain control of the state house and the state senate in virginia. that big double flip tonight means that democrats have control of all the statewide offices in the state. they've also got control of the state legislature in the state. and that puts democrats in complete control of the virginia state government for the first time in 26 years. of course the further big news tonight is out of kentucky, where the democratic state attorney general, andy beshear, has turfed out republican incumbent governor matt bevin. nbc news has called andy beshear the apparent winner in this kentucky's governor's race, which will frankly send shockwaves through not just kentucky politi

democrats poured a lot of money into the state legislature races. >> they did.saw a slew of 2020 democratic candidates go through virginia and lend some support there. support.bama tweeting his this was a democratic focus point for this election season. we should note this is the first time that democrats will control the governor's mansion and both parts of the state legislature for complete democratic control in the commonwealth of virginia for the first time in a generation, don. why is that so important politically? because there's a census coming up and there are new congressional districts to be drawn, new state legislative districts to be drawn in 2021. and the democrats are going to be in complete control of that process. remember in the obama era, we saw republicans win statehouse after statehouse and then drew maps that really helped them extend those victories. that's what democrats are trying to build back here in the trump era, and virginia is ground zero for it. >> david gregory, why does this race -- tell our viewers why this race matters. >> are

the sweeping victory will give virginia democrats control of the legislature and the governorship forhe first time in, get this, 26 years. the party has pledged to move forward with passing gun restrictions and raise the minimum wage once in power. joining us here on set, the washington reporter for politico. from last night at the event, i cornered him and said you better come on the show tomorrow morning. >> you cornered me. >> let's talk about the kentucky governor race here. you saw president trump show up the night before and dig in and say you've got to vote republican here. and lo and behold, the republican lost. what is that going to say about the national race here, especially when you have people wanting to stump for them? are they going to be regrouping here and saying how do we deal with the president, do we align ourselves with him? >> yes, i think they may second-guess themselves in terms of going all in line with trump. it's worked in the past in red state elections, republicans love getting the trump bump. but democrats are so fired up. and i think this impeachment is

and both houses of the united states legislature. an accomplishment that no one else has ever achieved. the one thing i know about senator isakson is the character of the man, that he didn't accomplish those things because it was a personal goal but because of a heart of service. and one thing that i have been able to consistently and honestly say about senator isakson is that he is a statesman. and that is something that seems to be lost in the line of politics today of those who are true statesmen. and things about him and statesmen that are common across the board. one is truthfulness. and i can tell you that senator isakson, johnny will tell you the truth, even if it is something you don't want to hear. he will tell you in a way that you will appreciate that, because he is doing it to uplift you and make you better and not to draw you down. faithfulness. he has been faithful to his faith, his god, his family, his political beliefs, his party, but more importantly, this country and the institutions he has represented. another is t

you control the state legislature, democratic governor, democratic legislature, they can move on things like gun laws, on redistricting on health care. so if you're a republican strategist looking at last night measuring last night's results, looking forward to a year from now, your next year's election, the canary in the coal mine, if you're a republican strategist, can you tell your clients got to watch out because the canary is dead? >> i mean, look, it tells you in the suburbs, a traditional republican strategy, sort of a pre-trump republican strategy of relying on those suburbs, those sort of more upscale college educated suburbs, to allow republicans to stay in the game, you need a new strategy. the strategy i think that trump is trying here is to drive up support from non-college white voters. to drive up support from rural areas, to drive up support from voters who didn't participate in 2018, didn't participate in 2016, and to sort of add them to the republican coalition to undo the losses in these suburban areas. the cautionary note in 2016 there was that famous quote, i think

in 1929, the legislature for the -- putime had a separate on the ballot. in 1952, it was the first time that new hampshire voters would actually vote republican. president since then, every person has won the new hampshire primary. [laughter] yeah. the first president showed which primaries they won. this president was not elected but he won. there has been 17 presidential area, and ofthe the 17, 14 of the winners became president that year, and the other three became -- no line [indiscernible] then they won a primary. this one happened in 1979. this one happened in 1935. [indiscernible] el 1975 -- in 1975, there was a push to have it -- [indiscernible] this one is what changed national law. i told the mayor and the vice president, both from indiana, [indiscernible] really significant. by one wouldone get rid of this, but the people here wanted to keep it. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] he is the other -- he is the only one alive out of those. if we had to have a primary on , we have to change it by moving it up a little. that was 1972. people did not wan

your dad was also in legislature as well. he ends up finding common ground, much the way hogan has tried to find common ground with democrats and he is a supporter of rockefeller, which is an important side story. rockefeller leaves him hanging rockefeller is in manhattan and is about to announce whether he will run from everyone is excited and that he says i'm not running. agnew is left at the altar. there is this audit shift. moderate,seen as a and then particularly on questions of law & order that buchanan seeds, he is seen as someone who can appeal to white southerners. that's how they end up using it. we mentioned there really is not much done on agnew. a biography came out when we were getting the book underway and it's fine. it does play biography should do. there followst this -- welcome he was a moderate who became conservative. share, to a certain extent. but we did not feel that was really the important story here. it is this temperament and rhetoric he bought. whether as county executive or vice president, that is

very strong footprint here in the south carolina legislature. they spend money.e have members who are in the national leadership of that organization for amy: the american legislative exchange council. our group,states in we have had people who did not even remove the name alec. just came in, dropped it. we haveve to be vigilt.t. we have to statay focused on ths issue. a part of what i see us needing to do -- and that is why this forum is so important because i am told from the frontline communities that there has never been this kiki of event -- which makes it even n more appropriate that it is here. -- the way you deal with alec, i believeve the best way to eat an elephant is one small bite at a time. amy: mustafa ali, how do you see alec playing out in legislators around the country? >> they have a particular view they're trying to push. that is why it is so important for us to really educate folks and engage them in the civic process and in the legislative process so they understand they have power and that theyey can help to o frame out. enenvironmental orga

the executive sometimes constituted as a multimember counsel was conceived as a creature of the legislature dependent on and subservient to that body. whose sole function was carrying out the legislative will. under the articles of confederation for example there was no executive independent of the legislative power. things changed by the constitutional convention of 1787. to my mind, the real miracle in philadelphia that summer was the creation of a strong executive, independent of and co-people with other branches of government. the consensus for a strong independent executive arose from the framers experience in the revolution and under the articles of confederation . they had seen that the war was almost lost and was a bumbling enterprise because of the lack of strong executive leadership and under the articles of confederation , they had been mortified by the inability of the states to protect themselves against foreign impositions or to be taken seriously in the international arena. they had also seen that after the revolution, too many states adopted constitutions with weak executive

funding from his gun safety group helped democrats win control of the legislature.ix weeks ago, bloomberg ruled out a run. >> the truth of the matter is, if you look at the layout of who is going to vote and where the country is, i would be unlikely to get elected. but in the private sector, i can make a difference. >> bloomberg rejected a run earlier because that path to victory seemed narrow with joe biden in the same lane. but biden has been struggling in the crowded democratic field, as former adviser david axelrod treated, this is a thunderclap. and not exactly a vote of confidence in the durability of the joe biden campaign. today, biden is in new hampshire, filing for the ballot there. he will face questions about bloomberg. bloomberg made no vet he doesn't want the party too far to the left. he jabbed elizabeth warren moments after her appearance. >> i just said to senator warren on the way out, senator, congratulations. it was a nice talk. just to remind you, if my company hadn't been successful, we wouldn't be here today. so, enough with this stuff. >> sen