at mar-a-lago. >> he was just going to the front of the line where he belonged. >> reporter: to his voters, president trump is no chicken. >> you act like they just called your number at kfc. that's mine, the 12 piece. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> anderson starts next. good evening. thanks for joining us. a lot happening tonight, not the least after which is happening as we speak. they are counting the votes in the atlanta area, and georgia is on a lot of people's minds tonight. georgia's sixth congressional district was held by tom price, who left to join the trump administration. it's been held by republicans, including newt gingrich, since 1979. georgia, as you know, is a red state. the race between republican karen handel and democrat jon ossoff could not have been closer going in, and has turned into the most expensive house race anywhere ever. right now, karen handel is leading by 2 1/2 points. joining us with more and why

this matters, john king. so polls closed just at 7:00 p.m. what's the latest on this race? >> the latest, anderson, is expect a long night. we have some early votes from fulton county, about 72,000 votes so far. this map is a bit misleading. i want to draw a line for you. this is the sixth congressional district. has a piece of cobb and dekalb counties, a piece of fulton county. these are the votes up here. this is the numbers so far. 51% for the republican, karen handel, 49% for the democrat, jon ossoff. what does that tell you? we have a close race. if fulton county stays like that. this is a republican area of the district. but jon ossoff did quite well here in the april runoff election. our projections tell us this is what he has to do to stay competitive in the district. he can lose fulton county, but only a couple of points.

if it stays like this, we're expecting early votes from the other counties in the next half hour and we go on from there. so the early results in a competitive race tell us we have a very competitive race in ground zero in american politics. democrats think if jon ossoff can win, it sends a message here in a district that republicans have held since the carter administration, but they believe it sends a big national message. republicans, they think democrats would overstate the national impact, but they have put so much resources from the national party, from interested groups like the chamber of commerce and other super pacs, hoping to turn out votes in the final days. more than $50 million. and when we have the results tonight and the reaction tomorrow morning, it will reset the national political debate. >> let's just mention that figure again, $50 million, one congressional seat. >> one congressional seat, but i want to go through one of the

reasons we're talking about this seat. number one, we've seen this before. democrats desperately want to win. if they lose, the morale crisis in the democrat party will be big, they lost montana, and others. look at the difference in the education level. democrats tend to do well with highly educated suburban voters. this is one of the top ten congressional districts in the country where the percentage of people that have bachelor degrees or higher. we mentioned how much in recent days the president has been involved. this is a tough district. look at this. the republican congressional candidate who held this seat, tom price, now the health secretary, he won re-election with 60% of the vote. the president was only getting 48.3%. mitt romney so much higher. john mccain higher. so donald trump struggles with the kind of republican voters that live in this head republican district. so democrats are saying if we

can win here, there are 25, maybe 30, maybe 35 other districts across the country in 2018 that are red today. republican districts today that look close to this. so if the democrats can win here, they think it really positions them, it will help with candidate recruitment and fund raising heading into 2018. >> a lot to watch for. john king, thanks. we'll be following this throughout the broadcast over the next two hours and certainly well into the night, as long as it takes for that. it is nothing compared to how long we've all been waiting for some other important answers, dating back to the last big election night. >> does president trump believe that the russian government interfered in the 2016 elections? >> i think i've not sat down and talked to him about that specific thing. we've been dealing with a lot of other issues. >> generally speaking, this conversation about russian interference in our elections, there's 16 intelligence agencies that say that they did. the former fbi director -- >> i understand. i've seen the reports.

>> does the president share those views? >> i have not sat down and asked him about specific reaction to them. so i would be glad to touch base and get back to you. >> that was sean spicer today, his first time back in a while. not his first time uttering those words. keeping them honest, this isn't even a tough one. each agency in the intelligence community weighed in on this. each one agrees, it happened. 16 agencies, employing tens of thousands of professionals have reached a conclusion, and the president is chief executive and commander in chief of them all. in some ways, the whole exercise asking sean spicer about this is sort of absurd. the president has all but spelled out his contempt that russia interfered in the election. his statements and tweets suggest the answer is no. but mr. spicer won't answer the question, are there tapes of the president's conversations with james comey? do people contribute to global

warming? did president obama wiretap president trump? did voter fraud give hillary clinton the popular vote victory? all of them a simple or no answer, but we're not getting that, and in many cases mr. spicer says he hasn't asked the president about it. we're asking him as much of a test of the administration's transparency as much as anything else. so we keep on asking week after week, month after month and he keeps on saying this. >> i have not asked the president since the last time we spoke about this. and i haven't spoken to him about the reason. i don't know. i haven't asked him that specific question. i said i have not had a discussion with him on the question. i haven't talked to the president specifically about this. i have not had an opportunity to have that discussion. i have not asked him. i have not asked the president. >> okay. >> i can get back to you. >> the answers say nothing. they also speak volumes. jeff zeleny is at the white house tonight. is there a logical reason, jeff, why sean spicer doesn't have an

answer to these questions? ro >> reporter: logical and also legal. sh shawn spicer doesn't want to contradict anything the president has said. i've covered the bush administration, the obama administration and the trump administration. never have we seen a press secretary who responds like this. but it is because of the principal, because of the president, because he is quite flexible and fluid on his views. so the white house press secretary and others speaking for him have intentional hi taken the line of, i've not asked him about that, because they know he's changed his view. on the issue of russian interference in the election, this happened seven months ago, election day was. everyone in this town has stipulated to it, republicans, democrats, every member of every intelligence community, but sean spicer did not feel confident enough to say the president believes that, because he's one of the few people left in this town who will not say that. but logical, i'm not sure.

legal, perhaps that's the reason he didn't say that today. >> what did sean spicer have to say what the president thinks of the health care bill? >> reporter: he said the president is in favor of some type of health care reform. he wants the senate to keep working on this, but sean spicer did not deny that the president was critical of the health care bill he was hailing and praising in the rose garden just a month and a half or so ago. but today he said the president wants a bill that has heart. he wants the senate bill to be more generous. that is a little bit of a problem here, because the senate is trying to work this out. but it's clear the president and the white house are not steeped in the details here, and sean spicer said the president has not seen the bill or does not believe the president has seen the bill. that's not surprising, because a lot of republicans on capitol hill haven't either. >> did spicer clarify his future

today? >> reporter: sort of. he said he's helping find a new communications director, someone to lead the strategy of the communication strategy here. we know that the communications director left about a month or so ago. but the reality here, whoever is the next press secretary, and there will be another at some point at some time, that is not the main challenge for this white house. it is the message, it is what they are talking about. no matter who is answering questions about the russia investigation, they're going to have the same challenges, if you will here. but sean spicer essentially said he's going to stay on. he refused the idea that he's going to be pushed out. several administration officials here elevated to a more behind the scenes role. we'll see what happens, anderson, but i don't think any of this is imminent. for one, a lot of people do not want this job. for two, it is a very complicated job. because again, the answers are complicated. the substance of this is all complicated. this is not a communications

problem. this is a substance and issue problem with this investigation. >> jeff zeleny, thank you very much. coming up next, special counsel mueller seems to be trying to get on the same page with the other investigative committees. >> reporter: he met with the house intelligence leaders as part of his probe into russian meddling. the idea was to make sure that mr. mueller's investigation does not in any way conflict with what the house intelligence committee is trying to do. make sure that they're not overlapping in scheduling witnesses, and they're able to move forward in essentially separate paths. mueller has been making the rounds, did meet with the senate intelligence committee last week, and the senate judiciary committee, leaders tomorrow. and interestingly enough, that committee is probing the notion that there could have been some interference at the fbi,

possibly even looking into obstruction of justice. that is what mr. mueller is investigating, could be questions about what witnesses could come before the senate judiciary committee and what witnesses mueller wants to interview. >> do we know where their investigation stands? >> reporter: right now they're in the process of scheduling some key witnesses. trump associates, people who may have had contacts with russian officials during the campaign. mark warner, the vice chairman told me earlier today that he does not expect any of those big witnesses to come before the committee before the july fourth recess. that includes jared kushner, the president's son-in-law. and i also had a chance to talk to richard burr, the chairman of the committee, about the scores of records that michael flynn has provided the senate intelligence committee. i asked him if it was responsive to the committee's request. this is what he said. are you satisfied with the documents you've received from michael flynn?

has he been responsive? >> we continue to work through documents that are supplied to us. and we're making a lot of progress. >> reporter: are you expecting to issue any more subpoenas to him? >> we don't talk about issuing subpoenas. that's the house side that puts those out. but we continue to invite people to come in. and we're ahead of what we had targeted for interviews. >> reporter: so burr saying he believes his efforts are moving ahead of his own internal schedule but he would not rule out that this investigation, anderson, is stretching into 2018, into the midterm election season. so it just goes to show you that the investigators on capitol hill are really just starting to really dig into the data and still don't know if they need more information from michael flynn, and others in order to answer a lot of the questions that they have, anderson. >> manu, appreciate the update. earlier, i spoke to senate angus king.

special counsel bob mueller was meeting with leaders on capitol hill. reportedly met with leaders in your committee last week. can you say the purpose of those meetings? is it to figure out what the boundaries are between his investigation and your investigations? >> yeah, that's exactly what it is. the term i used is deconflick shun. it's to be sure we don't step on each other's investigations. they're really different roles. our committee's investigation is about the facts, what do the russians do and how do we prevent it and the question whether there were contacts between the trump campaign and the russians leading up to the election. his examination is more in the nature of were there laws broken? and so he's going to be looking in different areas than we are. but we want to be talking and communicating again. so for example, we don't want to give immunity to somebody who would then be lost as a

potential witness with his investigation. so we do have to keep communicating. that's why you're seeing these meetings. >> and the house intelligence committee, they set friday for the white house to turn over any tapes if they exist. do you believe tapes exist at this point, and if they do, is your committee going to demand to hear them? >> if they do, certainly yes. but frankly, i doubt it. there's been all this talk about it. and the president keeps sort of dropping hints and saying well, you'll find out later. and you'll learn something. but i would be surprised if there were. i think we have to top using the word tapes and say recordings. i don't want anybody sliding by saying there are no tapes but there are digital recordings. if there is anything like that, in the possession of the white house or the president, it should be immediately made available to congress. >> and yesterday, your fellow

committee members told he believes michael flynn is cooperating with the fbi's investigation. do you have any sense about that? >> i don't have any sense about it. he has volunteered to talk on the condition, at least several weeks ago, he was looking for immunity. whether that's still there, i don't know. i think he's a very important person to talk to on a whole lot of levels. and eventually, i'm sure he will appear before the committee one way or another. >> sean spicer says he hasn't talked to the president whether or not the president believes russia tried to interfere in the election. do you buy that? isn't that what his job is to know or at least find out what the president thinks? >> it surprises me for sure and it fits in with jeff sessions last week saying all he knew about it is what he read in the paper and jim comey saying that in nine interactions with the president, he never really asked what did they do, how did they do it, how do you know?

this is pretty disturbing. it's very disturbing because this was a serious attack on our democracy, and at the top of the united states government, there ought to be a level of concern. >> i think if memory serves me, sessions testified under oath last week that he had never -- that the president had never had a conversation with him about it or asked. >> well, and, you know, i understand the administration's sensitivity, if you will, on this subject because of all the questions swirling around about the campaign and whether there were contacts with the russians. but put that aside, there is no doubt that the russians did this and that they're going to do it again. i mean, this is a serious danger to our country. and we need some leadership throughout the federal government, not just from congress, but from the administration to figure out what they did, how they did it, and mostly how we can prevent them from doing it again.

>> today, members of your committee told cnn they will be getting access to documents from the financial crimes unit as part of your russian investigation. can you say what exactly you're looking for? >> well, i can't, anderson. i'm not going to talk about the specifics. but this is a request we made some time ago. apparently, the treasury has indicated we're going to get those documents. i don't want to leave you, anderson, without talking about what we're going to be discussing in our hearing tomorrow, which is russian attempts to get into state election systems. and this is an important part of the story, and it isn't getting all that much attention because of all the drama around comey and trump. but this worries me the most. they tried to get into state election systems and they're going to try it again. all the intelligence is, they didn't change any votes. they didn't shift any votes. but as i say, they were

practicing. and i'm very worried about 2018 and 2020. and that's what we're going to be talking about with u.s. intelligence officials, but also with state election officials. this is a big deal. >> senator king, appreciate your time, thank you. just ahead, new results coming in from tonight's house race in georgia. jon ossoff pulling ahead. details on that next. and later for the first time, police video of the moments shooting of philando castile.e a jury acquitted the officer involved. the question is, will the video make you question the verdict? you'll have a chance to decide for yourself. here's to the safety first...

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yes, you see votes coming in down here and here. these are the counties, dekalb, fulton, cobb counties. when the votes come in, they populate the entire county, but the district is up here in the northern part. so what do we see so far? number one, dekalb county is the most democratic county, jon ossoff has to run it up big, he is, 60% to 40%. here in cobb county, this is the most republican county. karen handel needs to run it up big in this part of the district. early votes, 55-45, a good healthy lead. so then fulton county is the largest part of the district. the northern part right up here, atlanta is in fulton county, but it's not in the district. right now, 51 for the republicans, 49 for the democrat. that is where jon ossoff can end the night. this could be the one warning sign in the early results for jon ossoff in the sense that if

he ends the night losing by a point or two in fulton county, as long as he does what he has to do in dekalb county, he can still win the seat. the early voting, that might be discouraging for the democrats. they expected as republicans get the election day vote, republicans in a republican district, you can expect more republicans will show up. so if there's a warning sign in the early results, it would be that. this is about 114,000 votes. these are all early votes. we think there's another 30,000 early votes to be counted. then you get into the election day voting, another 120,000 voters voting today. so if you go back out and look at the early results, as i pull it out here, this tells you early results, everyone expected a very close race. the early results tell us, get the espresso machine going. >> john thing, thanks. i want to bring in the panel. david, as much as sean spicer was basically down playing the

importance of this, there's no doubt the white house is watching this closely. >> very closely. just look at the president's twitter feed over the last couple of days. he's clearly been focused on this race. if karen handel wins, i'm sure he'll take credit. he did some fund-raising for her, out there on his twitter machine supporting her. but sean spicer may be trying to down play, anderson, but honestly, the republicans hold this district, i think it's a very big boost for not just the president, but for mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. this will calm the waters to push on with health care and tax reform, the president's agenda. >> gloria, the flip side, if the democrat wins, it's a big loss for republicans, at least they'll spin it as that. >> of course. this is a district there shou shouldn't be a race in.

since the carter years, it's been republican. and the impact would be for democrats that they would really be able to recruit candidates more easily, because nothing succeeds like success here. i think they could be even more t strident on health care. health care was a huge issue, and ossoff talking about being against the president's plan on health care reform. so i think the democrats would take this, and they would run with this right into 2018. >> dana, the president has made a big deal of other special elections, praising republican wins. hard not to imagine him taking a victory lap and arguably deserved. >> no question. if in fact karen handel does pull it out, you bet he's going to take a victory lap. you know, republicans will do it, just like democrats would do the opposite if they win. but i have to say, we've been

talking about since the carter administration how this has been a republican district. forget that. it's been a republican district in much more recent history. tom price, who gave up the seat to be the hhs secretary, just last year, last november, this past year, 23%, that's how much he won this district by. 2014, 32%. two years before that, 29%. this is not historically a swing district, at all! so yes, the district has changed, to be fair. and tom price was a known quantity and he didn't have a real opponent like the democrats are running now. but it just kind of goes to show how the fact that this is kind of, from the democrat's perspective, a tailor made kind of district to take from republicans in trump years, meaning it's very wealthy, very high in terms of education, the

kind of republicans that they hope are turned off by a trump presidency or a trump republican. having said that, if in fact the republican does end up winning, to go back to your original question, the president has every right to crow about it. >> and mark, if the republicans do hold this, then it sort of weakens the democrat's argument in 2018, there's a bunch of other districts with similar makeup of voters that they think they can turn blue. >> no doubt. and i think we have to look at this in the totality of what we've seen so far. republicans have picked up two special elections, one in montana, one in kansas. democrats thought they had a shot in kansas, and we remember the news where the republican assaulted a reporter and they thought -- democrats thought they could capitalize and they didn't. tonight is another race in south carolina that will go republican. so let's look at it in totality at this point. if republicans do win tonight in georgia and south carolina, to david's point, you are going to see a calming of the waters.

democrats, though, even if they win tonight, and it will be a big moral victory for them, and that is not to be understated or overstated by any stretch of the imagination. there will be internal fighting within the party about what messaging actually worked, because ossoff hasn't necessarily run as this big liberal. he's really run as a centrist kind of a quiet candidate, just being very careful about what he says. we already know there's a fight within the party between the more centrist democrats, and really the revolutionaries, the bernie sanders ones. so the fight will go on. >> it's just incredible when you think about the money poured in, $50 million just for this one seat. and whoever wins tonight will have to run again for a full term just like every other member of the house. >> we don't know how it will end up. i was doing a calculation before, thinking the winner will end up having spent somewhere between $150 to $250 per vote.

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more breaking news tonight. two u.s. officials tell cnn that american spy satellites have detected new activity in north korea's underground nuclear testing site, this comes with outrage growing over the death of american otto warmbier, who was released just days ago in a coma. president trump facing pressure to take action against pyongyang. but first, what president trump today said about otto warmbier's death. >> it's a total disgrace what happened to otto. that should never, ever be

allowed to happen, and frankly, if he were brought home sooner, i think the result would have been a lot different. he should have been brought ohm that same day. >> the obama administration is responding to that. and warmbier's parents have made a decision on his autopsy. so let's talk about warmbier's family. they are electing not to have a full autopsy done? >> they objected to the coroner's office to performing a full autopsy. it is not clear why they asked that, but the office, the coroner's office did say they were still performing -- they did an external examination and they are doing interviews. they have not, they said, issued a cause and manner of death yet. but they did seem to leave open the possibility that a cause and manner of death could be concluded from the medical tests that have been done, the mri scans that have been done and the interviews they are

currently doing. >> the doctors who spoke did not seem to have a clear sense of what led to the condition that he returned to the u.s. in. >> he had -- was in a comatic state. they know it wasn't because of a traumatic physical event that happened that cut off blood to his brain. they did scans across his body. they looked at his soft tissue as well. there was no indication of choking or drowning or anything that might speak to torture of otto warmbier. there was also no indication of botulism, which the north koreans claimed was the issue, that he suffered botulism, took a sleeping pill and fell into this coma. so there is this broad mystery still out there. >> this has also become politically charged, as well. >> enormously. you have two republican senators in washington, john mccain and marco rubio, calling this murder, straight out.

the administration, for all the tough talk, are saying that he was unjustly imprisoned, says the secretary of state. the president saying that it was brutal treatment. but they are stopping far short of the term "murder." clearly there are three other americans and a canadian still in north korea locked up by them. they would like to bring them home. they don't want to make that situation worse. >> a lot to contend with. now the question about how the u.s. should take action, if any, against north korea. and the accusation that the trump administration could have been -- could have done more to help him. joining me now are john kirby, a former state department states person and pentagon press secretary. he was in the obama administration when otto warmbier was captured. also with us, david gergen. admiral, the president at least laid implicit blame at president obama's feet.

you were part of the obama administration. what do you say to that? >> i take great issue with that. i mean, look, there was nothing more important to president obama or frankly secretary kerry while i was at the state department than the safety and security of americans overseas. and though we weren't successful in getting otto back, and i do believe the trump administration should get credit for accomplishing that. it was not for a lack of trying or lack of effort. secretary kerry personally was involved in seeking otto's release. i can't tell you the number of times he brought it up directly with his chinese counterpart and others in the international community. we're all sorry it didn't happen and sorry to see the results. and there's great regret over that. but again, it wasn't for lack of earnest effort. >> multiple voices, particularly republicans, call thing murder. what options does the trump administration, does the u.s. have as far as any further action goes? >> well, i think they can

redouble their efforts to get the chinese to toughen up, to get tougher sanctions. the south korean government has been notably conciliatory towards north korea. we may need their help to strengthen things. but i also think, anderson, we should be very, very cautious about overdoing it. about being overly aggressive. it is a murder, and i think republicans are right to be -- many democrats are outraged, as well. but i cannot imagine that otto himself would want to see this, as horrible as it's been, to be a cause for warfare. >> admiral kirby, there are still three americans being detained by north korea. >> exactly. >> does that change the calculus here? makes it assume more complex. >> i think it should change the calculus, anderson.

we do have these three americans we need to be mindful with. i agree that this is murder, and this is a horrific act. but we need to be mindful whatever actions they take, you don't make the situation of those three any worse than it is. >> david, from somebody who has dealt with north korea, what concerns you most about this situation? >> i share the concern of a great many people in the foreign policy community, that we could stumble. we've got a mad man in control in north korea. he's very inexperienced. he's very defensive. he could easily -- if you corner him, he could snap back at us like a snake. and i think we have to be careful. the fear that so many have is that there could be miscalculations on both sides, that tempers could rise on both

sides and we could find ourselves drifting, if not rushing toward some sort of military action. and that could be catastrophic for the peninsula. a million people could lose their lives. particularly in south korea, right in the gun sights of the north. so the biggest concern is, miscalculation can get you into warfare easily and a lot of people can die. and i think that we've got to be extremely careful now to not act emotionally but to be very steely about this and tough. >> admiral kirby, the difficulties of military action, as david said, the potential loss of life in south korea, in the region, is enormous. and even just the tactical difficulty, the terrain is extremely difficult between the two countriecountries. >> yeah, it would be an enormous catastrophe if this broke into open conflict. i don't think that's in anybody's interest.

obviously we have to be ready, and they are ready to fight tonight as they say. there is a strong military presence there, that's very, very capable. i don't think it suits anybody to let it get to that point. i do think there are other options here short of it. if anything, mr. warmbier's death should underscore the brew tamt -- brutality of this regime and galvanize the international community to put pressure on pyongyang to do the right thing. >> thank you to both. up next, we'll check back in with john king for the latest vote numbers in the most expensive congressional race in history, $50 million, georgia's special election. also, the latest on the gop health care bill. they're planning on a vote next thursday. so when will they actually reveal the bill to the american people? obster's lobster & shrimp summerfest, lobster and shrimp are teaming up in so many new dishes. like coastal lobster and shrimp, with shrimp crusted with kettle chips. or new, over-the-top lobster and shrimp overboard.

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new returns coming in from the georgia special election. fewer than 900 votes separating jon ossoff and karen handel. the gop wants to vote on its health care bill before lawmakers leave for recess. the current target date is june 29, but the question is, is there a real plan in place or just saber rattling? let's go to phil mattingly for the latest. >> reporter: senate republicans have moved into an all-out sprint, no question about it.

after weeks of closed door meetings, with very few details, mitch mcconnell announcing today there will be a discussion draft available and released publicly on thursday. the big open question here, anderson, is where they stand on the policy. when you talk to senators, republican senators, all of whom will be expected to vote for this bill, if it's going to pass, they don't know where things stand, on things like the m medicaid expansion, how many regulation also be cut back. all still open questions. we should get and will likely get answers to those on thursday. but until we get those answers, until the senators get those answers, it's tough to know whether this bill will pass at all. even though mitch mcconnell has made very clear he wants a vote next week and expects a vote next week. >> the secrecy of this process, how is that playing? >> reporter: democrats have made no secret with their problem with this.

they've tried to slow up the senate procedurally. we even had three democratic senators leave capitol hill trying to go to the office build bring the cbo is located to look at the various draft proposals. they failed. one of the more interesting elements is where republicans are. they made very clear on the rank and file side of things that they are not happy with how this has gone. take a listen. >> have you seen -- what have you seen of the health care bill? >> haven't seen it. >> is that a problem? >> of course not. i always like to move forward with legislation i haven't seen. that's one of the practices i've enjoyed around here. >> any more clarification today? >> we had lots of conversations. every lunch, we have more and more conversations. it's wonderful, the conversations we have. >> does this make you want to not support this? >> i haven't seen. how can i put my support behind it if i haven't seen it?

i now how frustrating that is, but i haven't seen it. >> it's not being written by us, it's being written by a small handful of staffers for members of the republican leadership in the senate. so if you're frustrated by the lack of transparency in this process, i share your frustration. i share it whole heartedly. >> reporter: senator mccain was being pretty sarcastic here. but the interesting element out of those sound bites was senator mike lee of utah. he's inside the original working group. he's a key player on this. he's a conservative that mitch mcconnell needs to come along. his frustration on this process, combined with his very clear frustration on the policy side of things, is certainly ominous right now. but the big question is this, republicans can say they're frustrated all they want. they could change this process if they wanted to.

it would only take three to say look, we have to have more time on this. and then they basically can't do anything but that. so far, we haven't seen that. that means everything is still on track. but can they get 50 votes? i'm told right now from aides, they don't have it. >> phil, appreciate the update. now let's go back to john king. how is it looking, john? >> a slow count so far. you can see the district itself, still shaded blue. again, this is a republican congressional district since the carter administration. jon ossoff, the democrat, up at the moment. but up by a small margin. we're in the ballpark of a thousand votes right now. i'm going to pop this back out to show you there are three counties in this district. this is the congressional district, north of this green line i've just drawn. when we get votes, they fill in to the other parts of the county. what changed since the last time we had this conversation? we have gotten a bit more of the early vote in dekalb county. it's blue. jon ossoff has to run it up here. at the moment, he's doing that,

60% to 40%. that's the same as before. then you move over here, this is cobb county. again, no new votes here. this is the most republican area. karen handel the republican needs to have a healthy lead here. at the moment she has that. fulton county, the most populous area of the district. if you think fulton county, you might be thinking atlanta. this is the district here, out in the suburbs, this is the most republican area of the district. last we spoke, it was 51% to 49%. there have been a few more hundred votes, a couple more thousand, and karen handel has stretched her lead a little bit. if you're trying to read the tea leaves, that's encouraging for the republican candidate in the sense that remember, this has been a republican district for a long time. logic tells you, more republicans like to vote on election day. republicans should do well in the election district feel confident about the turnout today.

if you're jon ossoff,ed you wad to be ahead or at least more competitive with the early vote. we're not done with the early vote in fulton county. maybe that will change. but right now, anderson, shapes up as a very, very competitive race. if there's one warning sign at the ossoff headquarters, it's that karen handel has that lead there. jon ossoff could lead the night. the fact that he's not a little bit more space for him right now, it's a bit of a warning sign, but we've got a long way to go. >> put this in context of the 2018 election. because they're going to have to -- i mean, whoever wins is going to have to run again along with everybody else. >> whoever wins this district has to run again next year. i don't think they'll spend $50 million in this district again next year, but you're right. that person would have to win. if the democrat wins, running in a year first midterm election is usually bad for the president's party. perhaps if the democrat wins, you don't get wiped out in the next election. that happens sometimes when you win a district that's not to your party. but let's take another way to look at this. i want to pull out to the map

and come back to 2018 and see if i can find these districts for you here. this, according to the cook political report, and they're across the country, it's a little hard to look at a big national map like this, but 35, 36 of what are considered the most competitive congressional districts as you head into 2018. a lot of these districts are in states up here like hillary clinton won. up here, like republican seats in places that hillary clinton won. right? for example, across the bridge here, northern virginia. places hillary clinton won. the suburbs, just like this atlanta district. so if the democrat can win this suburban atlanta district that has been red for so long, it's going to encourage democrats in places like this. it will help the party with candidate recruitment, for example. so as you look at 2018, people look at the results in atlanta, study that district and try to find places across the country with competitive races, as you get to those things. and anderson, one more before i flip it back. i want to show you this. this may be the only time i get to do this. there's also a special election in south carolina.

in atlanta, it's tom price, the health and human services secretary. mick mulvaney, the budget director for the trump administration, his district is on the ballot tonight. at this moment, the democrat sleis leading. if we end the night tonight, i'll buy you whatever you want. early vote, a little bit of a lead there. two races to watch, south carolina, georgia. >> all right. john king, thanks very much. we're going to check back in with john throughout the night. up next, the recent acquittal of the minnesota police officer in the shooting of philando castile provoked outrage among some, but only those involved in the case actually saw the dash cam video of the shooting. we'll see what it's revealed. totally immersed weekenders. whatever kind of weekender you are, there's a hilton for you. book your weekend break direct with hilton.com and join the summer weekenders.

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and registration, sir. >> reporter: the shooting of this man, 32-year-old philando castile, by st. anthony police officer, geronimo yanez ignited nationwide protests over the use of force by police after castile's girlfriend diamond reynolds broadcast the shooting live on facebook. just after 9:00 p.m. on july 6th in falcon heights, officer yanez stops castile, believing he resembled a suspect in a robbery and had a broken taillight. diamond reynolds is seated in the front passenger seat. her 4-year-old daughter in the backseat. >> your brake lights are out. >> reporter: castile can be seen handing yanez his insurance card and telling the officer he also has a gun. the situation turning deadly in just seconds. >> i have to tell you, i do have a filer on me.

>> don't reach for it then. >> i'm not pulling it out -- >> don't pull it out! [ gunfire ] >> you just killed my boyfriend! he wasn't reaching -- >> don't pull it out! >> he wasn't! >> reporter: yanez fires seven shots, five of them hit castile, two in the heart. >> oh, man, i can't -- >> don't move! oh, my god! oh, my god! oh, my god! >> don't move! >> don't move, baby! >> code three! get the baby girl out of here! >> yanez lets out a tirade of profanity as reynolds begins her facebook tirade. >> i told him not to reach for it! i told him to get his hands up! >> he was just getting his driver's license. oh, my god. >> reporter: also seen for the first time, yanez's backup, officer joseph cowzer,

positioned on the passenger's side of castile's car. his casual demeanor up to the moments of the shooting demonstrates he did not feel threatened during the traffic stop. >> do not pull it out! he told a minnesota jury early this month he was unaware there was a firearm in the car and was surprised when he heard shots ring out, because he didn't know yanez had pulled his weapon, saying he did not hear the majority of yanez's interaction with castile and maintained he never saw a gun in the car. also caught on camera moments after the shooting, statements yanez made to fellow officers. >> he had his hand on it! >> and minutes later, this exchange between yanez and a supervising female officer. >> i told him to take his ands off of it. and he had his grip a lot wider than a wallet. and i don't know where the gun was. he wouldn't tell me where the [ bleep ] gun was. >> prosecutors say it was roughly 15 minutes after the shooting that castile's gun was

discovered in his right front pocket by an officer assisting with chest compressions on castile. yanez was found not guilty of second-degree manslaughter friday and on two counts of dangerous discharge of a firearm for endangering reynolds and her daughter. yanez testified last week he feared for his life because castile put his hand on his firearm, not his wallet or identification, telling the jury, i didn't want to shoot mr. castile. that wasn't my intention. i thought i was going to die. >> and ryan joins us. now, do we know if castile ever put his hand in his pocket? >> that is the big question. we may never know the answer to that, anderson, because the officer wasn't wearing a body camera, so you can't see from his perspective. all he said is he said he felt like he was in danger. then the video picks up on the inside, what millions of people had seen reynold's facebook live. and she says, of course, that when she talked to investigators, on three different occasions, that two

times he said he was reaching for his wallet. the third time, she said she believed he was reaching for his seat belt and defense attorneys seized on that. >> ryan young, thank you very much for the update. up next, the latest vote numbers from georgia. well, a 103 how long did it take you two to save that? a long time. then it's a fortune. i told you we had a fortune. get closer to your investment goals with a conversation.

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