every night, though. those are tweets for you. we're going to go one an one with right and left for you tomorrow, down in d.c sarah sanders, senate democratic leader, chuck schumer. that's all for us tonight. let's get after it tomorrow. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john vause live in los angeles. it's 11:00 p.m. here on the west coast, 2:00 a.m. in the east. and it could be days before final results are noenl fknown california. for democrats, it's a long road to flip the house of representatives come the midterm elections. but the x-factor is the jungle primary system, where democrats and republicans compete on the same ballot.

we have a lot to get to in the coming hour, joining us here, billschneider, author of how "america became uncomfortable." may preston, caroline heldman, radio supporter and columnist, john phillips and from orange county, california, cnn's senior u.s. correspondent. and we're going to start with the weird primary system in california. there's three districts that are causing concern, including the 48th district. what is the latest? democrats are watching this carefully. this is the 48th district. this is a district that hillary

clinton won. democrats want to flip this seat. this is one they have targeted. hans keirstead. he is the democrat here that wants to unseat rohrbacher. he encouraged pay dr ed patrons drinking. >> we don't know the final answer tonight. right now, we're in a solid second place. there is a second democrat running here. he is somebody that could cancel him out. it has been such a long and ugly primary. if they ansel each other out, it is very possible that a democrat might not make the november

ballot. it would be two republicans who go into the 48th district here. that would be a nightmare, according to the national democrats for a seat they believe is flipible. there's two other districts that the democrats are watching. california 39 and california 49 ese are two where republicans are not running as well as darrell issa. they are retiring. bu there's so many democrats on the ballot. because of the jungle primary system, a lot of voters simply don't kno who to vote for or the vote is being watered down. that's what's happening tonight. the votes coming in very, very slowly, john. we're not anticipating knowing anything about this until tomorrow, perhaps later. >> oh, the anticipation. here retiring were left off ofh

republican has made way for a field of democrats. >> there were a lot of voters who showed up, expecting their names to be on the roster in los angeles county. when they got there, the names weren't on. in that scenario, you're supposed to be handed a provisional ballot. but election officials vewere getting complaints. it could have an california 39, the district that ed royce is retiring. and gill cisneros made a huge play for hispanic voters. that piece of los angeles county, which is part of royce's district, that's where some of the irregularities were today. it could make the counting process longer. >> this is the capital of high-tecamerica. california, silicon valley. they can't count the ballots.

>> not the first time this has happened. we are talking about the road to the midterms goes through raor thedemocrats.there's been anti-trump enthus which brought a lot of democrats to run for office. that's been a blessing and a curse for democrats. >> the fields are crowded and the rules make it confusing for voters. caia is the center of the resistancemovement. in some ways, it's a test. a lot of people are saying, if there's a lot of pressure from the democratic party, progressive democrats, versus establishment democrats. dianne feinstein won a good victory. and she's one of the targets of the left of the democratic party. this is a testing ground for that. just like alabama is a testing ground for pro-trump republicans and establishment republicans. >> harry, for you, what's the biggest takeaway in the last

couple hours? >> the biggest takeaway is how good women candidates are doing. women have come out on top, especially in the democratic side. in new mexico, the first district, the woman is going to be the first native american woman if she wins because she is favored. iowa and new jersey, as well. and the governorships, iowa, alabama. south dakota. women favored won their nominations tonight. mostly on the republican side. >> just back to california, is there a concern there hasn't been the voter turnout? the increase in voter turnout that the democrats had been looking for. if you look at the 39th district. you see the republican. spent about $700,000 on that race and the democrats spent millions. not exactly the result they were hoping for. >> i think it's tough say whor the democrats.

certainly, the surge we were expecting in terms of voter turnout didn't happen. but in midterm elections, it's difficult to predict. going into the voting booth today and seeing there were -- i had to turn pages many times just for one race. when i put my ballot in, the man behind the counter said, oh, you did it right. it was difficult. this was a low race for the governorship. 84% of the people knew who the top contender s were. i don't know if this is the bell weather we're waiting for but it has to be reformed if it is not benefiting the citizens of california. >> you agree with that, john? >> there's not a lot of evidence that the natives were restless. this california primary looked

like california primaries in the past. democrats make up 45% of those requested absentee ballots. republicans made up 26% of people who received absentee ballots and 34%. i don't see signs of a big blue wave coming. >> how much did the democt leadership not help in this when it was running around a particular candidate, especially in the districts that were so up in the air when it came to the jungle primary. >> they did come into full play in the 39th district, which we've been talking a lot about. coming behind gil cisneros. he was locked in an ugly battle with another democrat, andy

thornburn. and it seemed to lift his chances. where kyung was tonight, i think some would like more guidance about which way to go. it did end up being a tight race between hans keirsteadhaey roud. there were candidates that dropped out. and that was confusing for voters. and maybe that could have led to a party that dealt with that. >> this is the orange county area. this is an area changing demographically. it should be changing towards the democrats. the republicans have lost support but the democrats haven't picked up the support in any significant way. >> what we're seeing in orange county, well-educated democrats, that used to be the heartland of the republican party. they don't like donald trump.

trump has made a huge education gap in politics. he attracts a lot of lower education voters. they haven't become democrats, but trump is driving them out of the republican party. >> the other race to catwatch i the governor's race. we have cox gavin newsom. this is what they said a short >> hello, california. are we ready for a republican governor? yes. we put a businessman in the white house. let's put a businessman in the governor's house. >> the halftime score is looking promising. and the home team is winning big. >> harry, this result, it's a win, not just for newsom, and

donald trump in the white house. >> he can endorse john cox and republicans were worried that if it was two democrats that got through in the governor's race, there would not be a reason for repu voters to comeout. this is something the republicans should be happy about. >> republicans hold 14 out of 53 districts in california. we're not going to win the senate. they're barely snuck in the governor's race. they're not going to win that. this is a state where the republicans are competitive because of the weird jungle primary system. what does it say about the republican state in california? >> california is a bigstate. there's a lot of offices you can win if you can't win a state-wide race. don't discount the impact of t getting john cox into the runoff, what impact that will

have in the down ballot races. i have on good authority, kevin ma mccarthy, is the one from bakersfield and he wants the endorsement coming from president to john cox in that tweet. that was influential in this primary. he was neck and neck with travis allen and neck and neck with vi villaragosa. >> are we seeing what democrats are hoping for? >> in the state oflifornia, icans ar third-most popular party, behind democrats and inspectindependents. we're seeing the enthusiasm. the best measure of it is the sheer volume of democratic candidates who are running this election. >> efsverybody stay with us. we have a lot more ahead on thie

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welcomeback, everybody. you're watching cnn's primary election coverage. we were talking about the jungle primary system in california. we'll explain what that is. harry, first to you. when california voters approved proposition 14, ten years ago, it was borne of good intentions but hasn't worked way. >> not really. it was put on ballot and passed by voters with the thought of getting more moderate candidates through. all we've seen is actual confusion because, as tonight illustrates, when you have a lot of candidates running on one side, if that side has a majority of support, and the other side has fewer candidates running, that side with fewer candidates can get their candidates through the second round even though there's less

support for them overall. >> how is the system meant to work? w is it meant to end the polarization? >> it was meant to allow more moderate voiceo rise in this stays, as opposed to having the most far left candidate and far-right candidates running. what it has done in this particular year, because there's so much anti-trump fervor, who brought democrats out in the congressional districts. but you ended up having many people in the field, that you had a splintering of the vote. and it turned into this whole game theory scenario, here in california, where strategists were trying to figure out whether they should spend money on trying to depress turnout or support for the third or fourth or fr cand, in order to allow their candidate to rise in second place. you have someone like gavin newsom who put out ads that

signaled to republican voters that they should be supporting cox, the republican, in order to ma sure that the former los angeles mayor, villaraigosa, was knocked out of the running. i think democrats have walked away saying, the system is not working and needs tweaks before we go through this again. >> it sounded like a system t sounded good in political science class. >> i dig political science. welcome to the law of unintended consequences. no matter what you do, it's going to have unintended consequences. it created a circus. the voters know, i go for the polls and vote for the candidate i like best. that's what they've always done. it's the rules that got everything screwed up. >> caroline, if you look at district 39, ed royce's district, the retiring republican. it looks like chaos in the democratic party and a lack of leadership. seven democratic candidates,

three of whom had spent millions of dollars, mostly beating up on each other. and the republican walked away with $700,000 spent is leading. >> right. what we've seen throughout california, the national party has been reduluctant to step in and endorse candidates. at the end of the day, you have people that are jumping into politics for the first time. so, they don't have the same party loyalty, for example. there's no leadership saying, we are supporting this candidate. in some races, but most of the races it's been a free-for-all. i like that the system keeps political scientists and data scientists employed. it's bad for democracy when you have two candidates from the same party. it diminishes our discourse and the he policy debate. that's what we're seeing throughout the state, it's time for a proposition.

>> kyung, to you, in district 48, another example of how the system didn't work for democrats. up to eight democrats, had their names on the ballot and three of thed noto run. >> andir names are still on the ballot. everything you're talking about up there i can capture with what one voter told me today. he said, there were so many name ballot, he just got flat confused. he's an independent. he wasn't sure. was he going to go with the republican incumbent? he decided against wasoingh sebody and there was a democrat he wanted to support. he picked the democrat whose name started with an "h." there's two democrats, t happen to be the front runners in california 48 and their names start with "h" both of them. he couldn't remember who he voted for. keir ste keirstead, the election watch party, or the other that is neck

and neck with him, harley rouda. that speaks to the confusion. the voters don't know who to support. there's too many people, e can tell you happening here tonight, john, because of all of the candidates, because of how long it's taking to count everything, this candidate, hans keirstead, came down and called it a night. told hisrs, we don't know what's going to happen until tomorrow. he's leaving the room as a solid number two, he says. but it's still early. >> still in the race at this point. john, as we look at dana rohrba rohrbach, often known as putin's favorite because of ties to russia, he was expected to retire before this election. but it seems the jungle primary system has kept his hopes alive. >> he told people he was going to retire and changed his mind. two points on this primary. i don't think it was borne of

good intentions at all. governor schwarzenegger at the time needed a vote in the state legislature for a budget. and this is what abell maldonado was expecting from him. he thought that an open primary would allow him to win the governorship after arnold schwarzenegger left. it's pretty clear on the republican side and the democratic side, more so on the democratic side, that the parties have lost control of the primaries. we saw this in the presidential election, when everyone thought jeb bush was going to be the republican nominee. if not jeb, marco rubio or ted cruz. they knew they didn't want donald trump. donald trump won and they had no control over that. candidates who didn't have the of nancy pelosi in the dddc, they had the blessing and the money. >> are we seeing any evidence of that around the country? the party has l conf

the primary process? >> i don't know if we've in esly seen a lot of evidence of that. i think the one overriding factor, i go back to it over and over again, if you're a woman or you have a name that sounds lik increase in your vote share if you're a democrat. we've seen across the aisle, different kand dacandidates win regardless of ideology or their connection to nancy pelosi. >> some of you will stay and some will leave. i will take short break. when we come back, celebrating a winning team at the white house, not usually a political event. but the philadelphia eagles are now the focus of president trump's latest criti protests. later this hour, why the white house press secretary is being forced to defend her credibility. when did you see the sign? when i needed to create a better visitor experience. improve our workflow. attract new customers.

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there's 12,000 tremors since may 4th. guatemala's feugo volcano covered villages. and american designer, kate spade, has died in an apparent suicide ater home in new york. she left a suicide note that mentions a young daughter and her husband. she designed handbags in the 1990s and the company grew in$1o a million dollar brand. she was just 55 years old. the u.s. appears to be overtaking controversy. he was meant to honor the philadelphia eagles tweeted thi. we'll be playing the national anthem and other wonderful music celebrating our country at 3:00 p.m. the united states marine band and the army corps russ,

honoring america. the president is furious with athletes who kneel to show justice. he disinvited them when just a handful planned to attend. later, the president struggled with the wor to "god bless america." ♪ god bless america land that i love ♪ ♪ stand beside her and guide her ♪ ♪ through the night with the light from above ♪ ♪ from the mountains to the prairies ♪ ♪ to the oceans white with foam ♪ >> okay. back to our panel now. back in january, the national college football championship, it appeared the president did not know the words to the national anthem. have a look at this. here he is. everyone was singing. he was mouthing the words, at

least appeared that way. john phillips, to you. it appeared also at the white house ceremony on tuesday, the president struggled once again with the words of the national anthem. he's had six months to learn them. out of a minimum, out of respect to the national anthem, you should learn the words and the lyrics. >> what did michael jackson use to say? it's not the lyrics that matter, but the beat. >> ins case, the lyrics do matter. >> i think the controversy is a net benefit for trump. go back to the football season when he started to war with the national football league over the kneeling. what happened? ticket sales went down, rates went down. not just for the regular season games but the postseason games and the super bowl.at happened? the nfl had to take a vote. they changed their policy. then, they started playing games with this eagles visit to the white house. they were trying to embarrass him, so, he canceled that event. >> with that point in mind, the cowboys owner jerry jones said

that president trump told him, this is a very winning, strong issue for me. tell everybody, you can't win this one. this one lifts me. did the president go to war with the eagles and the nfl to rally supporters ahead of the primaries? >> absolutely. he's harkening back to the cultural wars that divided the country in 2016 and elevated him. he ran on an openly racist platform, i would argue, with his definie inmexicans as rapis. he e words of the election. we elected the head of the birther movement after a black president. anytime there's something going with russia, he beats the drums, even if the drums have nothing to do with what happened to the eag eagles. many of them have come out and said, it's because of the way you treat women. because of your open racism during the election. >> there were lots of reasons. >> right. >> now, seems like the cavaliers

and the golden state warriors will be the next teams to decline a white house invitation. >> no matter who win series, no one wants an invite anyways. it won't be golden state or cleveland going. >> traditionally hosting a championship team at the white house has been an apolitic aal event. if there was any politics at all, he would try to diffuse that. this president wants to magnify those. >> this president is an unusual figure. he's the only president i heard of, who governs as a divider. he got elected as a divider. his four immediate predecessors all ran as healers. both bushes, obama, bill clinton was a new democrat. obama was supposed to heal the divide. they all failed. the divide is real. but trump saw an opportunity in the divided nation and said, i'm going to exploit that opportunity. he goed egot elected by divisio.

>> that may be good politics. what's the impact on the country, though? >> i think, you know, the real issue, as we saw in the white house briefing today, is a lot of people feel it's not really getting discussed. it's all the surface tensions and the questions about whether the president understands the full dimensions of this. as you pointed out, the white house clearly thinks this is a good political i for trump. otherwise, he would not keep coming back to it. you have to wonder if some of the competitive districts and the philadelphia suburbs, wil people remember this in november? will they be thinking about it? will it bother the more moderate republican women who don't like trump's tweets or his fights? that will be something we'll all be watching this fall. >> here's a tweet from the rogue potus staff. that awkward moment whe wants to go to your child's birthday party, so your

embarrassed child says they didn't want a party anyway. then has a newty by lves alone, and complains about being lonely. your child is the united states. cancelling the event with the es seems consistent with trump's behavior. you can't fire me because i quit. >> we keep acting like there's some tiny sect of people that want people to stand for the national anthem and think it's disrespectful to take a knee or stay in the locker room. we're talking about half the country. he's not speaking for himself and for his own ego here. the american people, including nfl fans, people who watch the nfl fans, people who are season ticketholders, they feel the exact same way that he does.e f this is something that a lot of people are cheering. >> okay. not the mayor of philadelphia because he fired back at the president after cancelling the event. here's what he said. >> he had the opportunity to serve his country, five times, he ducked out. he had the opportunity to serve his country for real, his father

got him out of it. i think it's really disinsje lls for him to tal about him. >> when this guy had the opportunity to dclinton. >> the election is over. >> there's plenty of people who support this idea of limiting the free speech of african-americans more. nobody is contesting his strategy is work. the question is whether it is harmful for our nation and democracy. >> they're on the clock. >> they're on the clock, expressing freedom of peach in a way that is not invasive. we don't get to tell minorities the proper way to express their political beliefs about being murdered in the streets. we don't get to do that. >> if i want to express my free speech right to drop an f-bomb, what do you think cnn will do to me. >> let's find out. >> this illustrates a point that a student asked me about. a student asked me, is this the

most divided we've been as a country? and i said, we did once have a ci 250,000 americans died in the civil war. >> just by comment o mayor of philadelphia, if the president defines the patriot him as one way? is it fair to define patriotism as those who serve in the military? >> that was a political statement. you start down that road and it's going to lead to some nasty places. yeah. this is a discussion that just gets more and more divisive by the day. we're goi to talk about everyone's military service. that's the direction that trump would like to drive the discussion. >> as a nonmilitary experience guy. >> the president doesn't have the best history when it comes to eagles.

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42 minutes past 11:00 on the west coast. welcome back, everybody. you're watching cnn. for the second day, white house press secretary sarah sanders has refused to correct her statement that donald trumpid not dictate a statement for don junior. he did that statement. and on tuesday, sarah sanders turned on theedia for pushing the issue. >> i work every day to give you information. i'm going to continue to do that. frankly, i think my credibility is probably higher than the

media's. and i think in large part, thatause you guys spend more of your time focused on attacking the president instead of reportingnews. >> back with our panel now. for more sarah sanders. people were laughing in the briefing room. we don't have polling on sarah s w comes to her credibility. but we have the numbersf the president's credibility, compared to the three cabndou t three news cable networks more than donald trump. at the end of the day, what does this have to do with sanders' refusal to set the record straight? >> she is the president's mouthpiece. that's her job. if people don't trust the president, they're not going to trust anything she says, either. that's where she gets in trouble. she's the voice of the president. >> w wouldn't correct the >> i don't think we can explain her mow titives at this point.

it was a fascinating discussion because she was pushed on that point. and for whatever reason, did not clarify whether she got misinformation. she just kept over and over, co she tried to give the best information at the time. >> she can't answer the questions because it must go to the special counsel dealing with the russia investigation. >> that didn't make sense. as our pamela brown pointed out, she talked about the investigation at different times. shight be protecting herself, possibly. we don't know where the vestigation is going. that's the guidance she's gotten from the top officials i the white house. >> then, with a totally straight face, she added this. >> i work /day-out. believehe majority of you hear re in the room, i'm an honest person who works hard to provide you with accurate information at all times. i'm going to continue to do that. but i'm not going to deal withe

outside counsel. >> that was astounding, given that white house has a history of spreading false and misleading statements and refusing to correct the record over and over again. >> it's not surprising to me that sarah huckabee staanders ld for being an honest person. she works for a man who averages seven lies per day. he picked up in 2018, eight lies per day. she is the professional mouthpiece and for lack of a better term, a liar. we've never seen someone on that podium acting like she does. there's been a modicum of trust between the person who is the president's mouthpiece and the press. she has obliterated that. not only is she not in the loop, but she's dishonest with reporters in a way to fact-chec. >> for someone who speaks for the president, sarah sanders

seems not to speak to the president a lot. she doesn't seem to answer a lot of questions when asked. especially when asked about the russia investigation and other issues. >> i refuor questions about the outside counsel. i would refer those questions to the president's attorne she mabe in the loop of w what the most up-to-date information is. they don't want to talk about economic date that is good for the president. they're going back to the subject pretty much nonstop. i believe a lot of people out there don't have faith in the media. in the election, the media picked a side. they picked against president trump. and voters remember that. >> bill? >> donald trump thought that hillary cln was going to win. he expected hillary clinton to win. that's why his wife wasn't worried about becoming first lady. ion. was a universal dp that was a problem in polling, among other things. the expectations were there. i think trump got his mandate,

so much of a mandate he got, he got it because he was unexpected. he was unexpectedly elected. thatmandate. >> is the problem that they have a president that says one things one day and another thing another day. you don't know where the president stands? >> it's all of those things. and the president likes to change his mind about what he's going to say. in this case, you have a lot of cleanup going on right now, in terms of people like rudy giuliani, going out and saying something different than what the white house said a couple of months ago. all of this leads to a place of confusion, which is, perhaps, where donald trump would like us all to be. he's done everything that he can to discredit the mueller investigation and has been successful when it comes to republicans and n his base, thinking it's a partisan investigation. clearly, there's more and more

confusion about this and that's where he wants to go. >> 30 seconds, caroline. is it a deliberate strategy? >> i think it's ly a distribute strategy. we've seen it since he got int office. he praes dishonesty as a way to control the message and seems to be shameless about it. hillary clinton actually received more negative coverage according to harvard study during the election than donald trump. the media was engaging in a lot of sexism. >> we'll take a short break. when we come back, we'll have more on the biggest u.s. primary night of the year. will democrats ride a blue wave to the november midmidterms? is there any sign a blue wave is coming? 5 years ago, last week. just 1 pill each morning, 24 hours and zero heartburn. it's been the number 1 doctor recommended brand for 10... ...straight years, and it's still recommended today. use as directed.

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welcome back, everyb 11:52 on the west coast. we have cnn projections for the races in california's primary. republican young kim, will lead the race. we don't know who the second top finisher will be. dana robacher moves on to the

midte midterms. and to the 49th district, one democratic candidate will move to the general election. back to our panel now, kwquickl. from all of the results, are we looking at the blue wave? >> we could be. that's in november. this is a primary. a lot of voters don't vote in a primary and they decent see what's at stake. for most voters, this isn't a vote on donald trump. it's a primary vote. i wouldn't draw hasty conclus n conclusions in a primary. maeve? >> i think democrats would like to see more robust turnout, particularly in california today. given how much energy is at the heart of the resistance. donald trump made the war front and center in his administration. if there was going to be an enormous blue wave, a lot of people expected to find it here in california.

things are looking scarier for democrats. >> claire liaroline, what do yo? >> it's hard to say what will happen in november. it wasn't a great turnout. it illustrates that translating the #metoo movement and the parkland activism and the historic turnout to the women's marches and voting at the polls is more difficult than imagined. the democrats are still up 6% in a generic ballot. >> that's down from what? >> down from about 15 points. so, it is waning. but they have an advantage. and i think we need to wait until november. i think there will be strong push. anti-trump sentiment in november. and i don't think that this is a reflection of that. >> i think a lot of people fail to realize that among republicans, donald trump is loved second only to ronald reagan. they love the guy. he's at 86%. that means huge turnout and huge

enthusiasm among republicans. >> i talked to a consultant that said an internal poll they did, donald trump's approval rating in orange county was 50%. in deep blue california, there's pockets where donald trump is popular. turnout isre near democrats wanted it to be in california. there's a factor on this ballot. antonio villaraigosa had the shot to be the first latino governor. they thought he would motivate people to go to the polls. didn't happen. >> on the ballot in california, obamacare repeal, the tax package that hits california harder than other states. and yet, we haven't seen, at least to this point, people turn out because of that. >> well, i think it has a lot to do with the fact that it's a slate of democratic candidates. that's who you're voting for. in california, it's an assumption that a democrat is

going to win. if you live in a republican district, maybe the turnout is higher. i don't think that voters will anslatthis into what happens inr. it's not a push against krmp, but the repeal that will actually, you know -- that's not what was on the ballot today. >> good point to leave it on. thank you, everybody. appreciate you being with us. it's been a good night. thank you for watching. "early start" is up next for our viewers in north america. everyone else, it's cnn newsroom. you're watching cnn. ene has the perfect conditioners for everyone. from air-light foam, to nourishing 3 minute miracle, to the moisture-infusing gold series. we give more women great hair - every day. pantene. with tripadvisor, finding your perfect hotel at the lowest price... is as easy as dates, deals, done!

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