then we'll start seeing results. these are the very first, just in the last 60 seconds or so, don, starting to come in. we are specifically looking at what is going to be happening in the gop primary for the u.s. senate. it is essentially a two-man race. one of the candidates is the former attorney general who many of the voters we spoke with today at various polling centers said they consider the front-runner. he is the more established candidate, has been in office, a better known quantity. he has donald trump's endorsement. but he has seen a late challenge from a political newcomer, sam brown, an army retired captain, someone who earned the purple heart while he was in afghanistan and was injured. he was seeing grass roots energy, a lot of support, able

to buy ad time so a lot of the grass roots republicans say they'll support him so we'll see how that race shapes up because what it is going to do is set the stage for what happens in november, who the republican will be, and challenging the democratic incumbent senator who is defending a seat, a seat in a state where joe biden won by about two percentage points. a nail biter today. >> john king, you are following key races out of south carolina, incumbents, representative nancy mace and representative tom rice, one of the rare republicans to impeach trump after the insurrection. what is the latest there? >> let's move across the country and look at the house. pull up south carolina. votes coming in a little more quickly than nevada but we're several hours in now. this is very interesting here.

the seventh district russell frey is donald trump's candidate here, a conservative running against the incumbent. tom rice had that seat since 2012 and won big in the tea party year. he is getting 25% of the vote right now, disappointing for a republican incumbent who represented the district for a decade. 99% of the vote in. we're still tallying the final votes. the 50% plus one you avoid a run-off and he would be the republican nominee in a very republican district. it looks like tom rice will be defeated. he voted to impeach donald trump and republican voters appear ready to punish him. the other grudge match is down in the first district, charleston, and further south along the coast nancy mace the incumbent trump wanted to lose here and endorsed katie arrington, a closer race, 53 to 45 but significantly at the moment nancy mace is still above 50. if we look at the district this way, this is by county in the district. katie arrington's base is down here. only 50% of the vote counted

here so if you are in the mace campaign you're looking to see can she make up the ground. if you look over all again we're getting close to 80%. nancy mace has a nearly 5,000-vote lead. we'll count to the end. >> let me ask you. texas tonight there is a special election. >> it is an interesting one as well. this is a democratic seat. the democratic incumbent resigned so they're having a special election. because it is a special election it is a little funky to get to the programming. let's pop down to the end and bring up the state of texas and move it over. the house general election. you see this strangely drawn district. we could have a week long conversation about texas gerrymandering. it is the 34th district. it was represented by a democrat. 97%, still counting but the republican candidate mira flores

at 51%. the wall is acting up. if she can hold that and stay above 51% she will be the congresswoman only through january. this will be re-run in november to fill the remainder of the term but democrats have a very narrow majority in the house. if she were to win this seat i believe that would make it 220 to 210 with five vacancies so for the next couple months it would impact the margins in the house. if she stays at 51% she will be congresswoman for the rest of the year. >> thank you very much. i want to bring in cnn's senior political analysts and political commentators. hello one and all. good evening. bakari, you were supposed to be here. what happened? i thought you were going to be sitting on the set with me. i was all excited about it. there you are in your home studio. i don't like it. this is your home state though. what is your reaction to how south carolina, this primary is playing out? >> i think it is what most

people thought at the beginning of the day. two candidates, both who opposed donald trump at different times. candidates actually matter. russell frey was a great candidate and pulled off a defeat of tom rice and katie arrington simply is not. >> we have a result in south carolina. we'll get back to john king and then continue our discussion. mr. king, what do you have for us sir? >> just the exclamation point. you can look on the map now to what he was just talking about in the first head-to-head primary match up republicans who voted for donald trump and decided not to run but the first head to head match up somebody who voted to impeach donald trump, tom rice has lost to russell frey. this is the seventh district in south carolina. it's myrtle beach. then it stretches out into this much more rural, conservative area here. i'll just show you quickly how it breaks down by county. if you look at it this way, that

tells you the sweep of the victory. russell frey not only won the primary tonight. he won and led and carried every county in the district. this is the victory for russell frey, for donald trump. looks like a split decision if nancy mace holds on but for the congressman who voted yes on impeachment who said he was proud of that vote donald trump is going to say gotcha. >> thank you very much. let's go back to the folks discussing. you want to pick it up from here? >> no. i think what john king said was right. one of the things i wanted to point out is in these races where donald trump is endorsing the quality of candidate matters. in south carolina you saw the dichotomy there but also the districts matter. you know charleston very well. a bluish purplish type of district surrounded by buford and dorchester and berkeley etcetera.

that is where nancy mace is running not nearly as conservative as where tom rice who got defeated by russell frey tonight. donald trump is going to claim victory tonight but he was still 50% today. >> are you surprised by this? >> no. rice actually cast two weird votes. he initially sided with trump on rejecting the electoral college in a couple states then voted to impeach trump so if you can get on the wrong side of everybody in a five-minute period he figured out how. mace's transgressions were more rhetorical and she ran a pretty good race. i'm glad mace survived and i agree with bacarri i think candidate quality played a big role. good job for nancy mace and glad she'll likely be going back to congress. >> do you care to comment on this? not a home state. >> i agree with what was just

said. mace is in basically a swing district so a very different district and very different kinds of votes. voting to overturn the election is something that can be seen in a way that impeaching donald trump can't be and obviously made rice a real target for voting to impeach. >> i wanted to pick up on the texas race but the texas 34, the district is run under the old lines. biden won by four. republicans will win it tonight. in the fall i think it has been redrawn in a democrat plus. however. 84% hispanic population in that district, hillary clinton won the district huge. broem won the district huge. biden a narrow victory for him. in terms of larger macro political issues right now in this country to me tonight texas

34. the movement of the hispanic voters toward the republican party in that part of texas is one of the biggest stories of the night. it is not quite final but a big deal. >> do you see a trouncing? i think scott is indicating there is going to be a trouncing of democrats come midterms. do you agree with that? >> well, i think that is sort of the expectation and i think if we look at it given historically -- we were all predicting quite sometime ago even before joe biden's approval ratings got to the point that they are that democrats were going to have a hard time because historically that is what happens to the president's party in the first midterm election. i think a lot of things have now come together to make it even tougher terrain for democrats because of what is happening

with inflation. you have the cnn polls showing that is the number one issue with voters and they prefer republicans by 20 points on that issue and an issue unfortunately joe biden doesn't have a lot of control over and, so, you know, gas prices are high and very tightly connected to the approval rating of the president. yes, i think the expectation is that democrats are not going to have a great midterm election. >> let's turn to january 6th before we were so not really rudely interrupted but scott took us down another path here. january 6th select committee has been presenting videos of multiple trump insiders saying everyone knew trump's election lie was bogus. will the committee's work have any impact on these races? >> that is a good question. i think that it was just said best. when you think about inflation, gas prices, and the issue she didn't mention which is also very high on voters' minds, and that was crime, and the rise of violent crime.

i think those issues while january 6 is going on is going to be difficult to cut through. what you have seen is something i did not think was quite possible which is this committee has put on not just thrilling tv to watch it but they've utilize the words of republicans. this isn't a one sided idea at all, it isn't a one sided committee with one sided testimony. when you look at the spat today between the diet pepsi drink and rudy guiliani versus jason miller and others, you see that this is actually the inner workings of the republican party. will it be a major issue? yes. but i think with three or four other major issues. >> the january 6 committee putting out a video previewing what is to come. let's take a look. >> he started to ask me about something dealing with georgia

and preserving something potentially for appeal. i said to him, are you out of your effing mind. he said i only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth, orderly transition. i don't want to hear any other words other than orderly transmission. repeat those words to me. eventually he said orderly transition. i said good john. now i'm going to give you the best free legal advice you're ever getting in your life. get a great -- criminal defense lawyer. you're going to need it. then i hung up on him. >> that is trump white house lawyer eric hershman telling john eastman to lawyer up, scott. i mean, that's pretty significant.

>> yeah. donald trump at the end of his political life there in this campaign anyway had two kinds of people in his life. people telling him the truth and then, you know, sort of professional, political people, and seemingly clear eyed about this and then he had people who were bat poop crazy and he chose poorly and drank from the wrong cup. you see what happens here. honestly, it's been quite obvious from this testimony that there were plenty of people saying, look. this is not what you think it is. you've lost. he had the correct advice and he went venue shopping and found people telling him really bad things and now a lot of these people, i don't know if they'll ever nab trump but some of these people feeding him stuff are clearly in trouble. they deserve it. they did a bad thing. i don't feel bad for him at all. >> making the point that he said there were republicans fighting against each other. this is really trump's inner circle, the people closest to

him, closest and most trusted advisers actually providing all of the ammo in the testimony to the january 6th committee. this is his white house lawyer. >> right. i've been asked this before about will this affect the midterms and my general feeling has been the same, which is probably not. maybe around the margins. how crazy is that? what you're saying is that this isn't a partisan witch hunt by any standard. this is something that is being, you know, show casing republicans and people who work for donald trump so something about donald trump they liked and felt they had to be there who are saying, telling these stories that are just unbelievable. right? you can't believe this is happening that these conversations are occurring where a white house lawyer is having to tell everybody we're doing an orderly transition.

that is just something we take for granted. i think it has been so baked into the cake for some reason that some people have made up their minds. i would love to be wrong about that and if i am wrong i'll be very, very happy but it does seem when it comes to these trump issues people kind of stake out their positions and don't, it is very difficult to shake them from them. >> yes. i think you're right. i think most people probably, i think their positions are they are stilled in their position. people believe what they believe at this point. right? and it is hard to break them away from it. i just find this testimony so compelling that it has to make you at least think even if you are not going to change your position. is that a fair assessment? >> i think so. i think you're highlighting the greater issue we have in politics today that people are entrenched in their positions. if you took 12 independents, and

i'm not sure how many independents are watching this and you show them this i do believe this would move them and sway them but just to highlight the depth and seriousness of what we're talking about here not just people in the president's inner circle. i am hard pressed to figure out how rudy guiliani and others have not committed a crime. i guess that is for the doj to figure out later down the road but you even talk about a president of the united states who raised $250 million for something he knew was a fraud, improper. he took advantage of individuals. and when you think about all of these things, not just whether or not there are attempts to overthrow the government and the fraud and deceit coming from the highest levels of government this is something you see only in movies that is really playing out in front of our eyes but at the end of the day we go back to the price of whiting is an extra dollar a pound. to fill up with gas is $5 a gallon. these are real issues and a lot

of people are not able to focus on issues of democracy but the pocketbook. >> i got to go, scott, sorry. i'm getting yelled at. >> okay. >> i got the last word over scott. >> it is interesting what people will ignore. >> i'll call you. >> text me. i want to know what you have to say as well. thank you all. appreciate it. the investigation into trump's claim of voter fraud in georgia heating up. now authorities want to speak with a former publicist who -- kanye west. plus record flooding in yellowstone national park collapsing homes and leaving families stranded. so you both stay comfortable and can help you get 30 minutes more restful sleep per night. save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. plus, 0% interest for 36 months. ends monday

just as projected south carolina nancy mace will win her primary race against trump backed katie arrington. also a new development in the investigation of the former president's baseless claims of voter fraud. investigators with the fulton county district attorney's office now seek testimony from a former publicist for r. kelly and kanye west who allegedly pressured a local election worker to admit trump's lies about voter fraud in 2020 were true. that is according to court documents obtained by cnn. joining me now the republican lieutenant governor of georgia jeff duncan. good evening. never a dull moment. this is just one development in a complicated case but it seems like trump may be facing more trouble in georgia than anywhere else he is being investigated. how do you see this? >> certainly the chaos continues to follow donald trump.

and it should. the chaos and lies he spread certainly didn't do us any justice. it is part of the process, don. moving on from donald trump is part of the process just like we are watching the january 6th hearings. not only are they talking about the awful events that led up to january 6th but now we are seeing a peek behind the curtain of all the advisers talking truth to power during those moments and he completely ignored it. it is part of the process and i think it means we'll get closer to getting a real leader in the republican party to take on a president that not only myself but folks on the left and in the middle see as unfit to take on the job. >> you saw the video of the trump campaign attorney saying he wanted to hear from john eastman, all he wanted to hear were the words orderly transition and yet trump's election lies keep going on. what do you think when you hear that? >> it's cringe worthy.

when i first heard that tape it reminded me of brad raffensperger's phone call from the former president and an hour plus of being brajd with crazy, ludicrous ideas. like i said, i think more and more people are waking up every day on the republican side of the aisle realizing it is time to move on. they've attached themselves to a bunch of conspiracy theories that have no merit and we'll get back to solving real problems and trying to figure out -- think about this. this is hard for me to believe. the most important job in the world is arguably the president of the united states and the last two we put in place one has made himself unfit for service because he lied and one is quite honestly unexplainably unfit because he can't explain anything. this is the most important job in the world and these are the two people we picked to put in charge. we deserve better. >> how do you think the committee is doing so far? >> pretty well. i'm always skeptical of a congressional committee. very partisan committee trying to fact find. i think they've done their homework and are delivering it in a fair and balanced way.

certainly i don't think they'll get to some sort of judicial head in that committee process but certainly it has been enlightening to kind of see and hear behind the curtain. do you wish they had spoken out sooner? >> look. i don't know if you can rush this stuff. there are so many moving parts. you're talking about a former president, members of congress. you're talking about people willing to lie on record. it is just hard to believe. one of the things that really caught my attention and i've said it publicly the last few days i think it completely disqualifies anybody as a legitimate leader going forward. if they didn't get the events of january 6th at the moment and stayed consistent with the facts it was a big lie and an insurrection, if you don't get that right, you don't deserve the right to serve in elected office in my opinion. >> thank you so much. we appreciate you joining us. >> thank you, sir. georgia was a critical state in the 2020 election and likely

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tonight's primary is giving a glimpse of what is sure to be an intense 2022 midterm election season. among races expected to be closely watched this fall the georgia senate battle between the democratic incumbent senator warnock and the gop challenger herschel walker, facing off for

a critical seat that may not only decide which party controls the senate but potentially impact a number of big issues from voting rights to gun safety. raphael warnock joins me now author of a new book called a way out of no way. thank you very much. nice to hear that every sunday morning in church growing up. i should get there more often than i do now. thank you for joining us. i appreciate it. democrats can't afford to lose a single seat in the senate. you were able to flip yours from red to blue but now republicans are hoping they could take it back. you obviously think you are a better place for georgians than your opponent but do you think he is qualified to serve in the senate if he does win? >> great to be with you, don. the great thing about a democracy is it is not up to either one of us but up to the people of georgia and i can tell you that the people of georgia

have a real choice in front of them about who is ready to represent them in the united states senate. i'm proud of my record. i'm proud of the work that i've done to support ordinary, hard working families. we passed the single largest tax cut for middle and working class families in american history called the expanded child tax credit. we passed a bipartisan infrastructure bill. and now i'm focused on lowering costs for seniors who have to choose between prescription drugs and groceries and i'm trying to get the president of the united states to do substantial cancellation of student debt. this is the honor of my life. i look forward to the conversation. >> i have to ask you about a followup on something that happened last night. my colleague anderson cooper asked if you think president joe biden should run for re-election in 2024 and you didn't give a direct answer. the white house has repeatedly said he plans to run. do you intend to support him?

can i get a straight answer on that? >> of -- do i plan to support him? of course. i support the work that i'm trying to do on behalf of the people of georgia. i think that too often we're focused on the next election. i can tell you as people gather around their kitchen tables they're not thinking about these issues in terms of democrats and republicans. and i'm willing to stand on behalf of the people of georgia. >> yeah. but i mean they do think in terms of who they're voting for. they think in terms of democrats and republicans. i understand on the issues people just want to be able to afford gas and put food on their table but when it comes to an election you have to be of a certain party in your state to vote at certain times of the year. so again, i think you answered but you do plan to support him in 2024.

>> i support the people of georgia. and their concerns. listen, i have spent my whole life committed to service. i didn't even plan to go into politics. i am not in love with politics. i'm in love with change. i'm in love with justice. i'm focused every day on the concerns of ordinary, hard working people. >> i've got to ask you these questions about politics though. and again the current president recent polling shows joe biden is losing support among black americans. his job approval dropping from 87% to 67% within the span of a year. that is among african americans, black americans. if he is losing faith with black voters does that bode well for his re-election chances and the people who he could help or hurt down ticket? >> don, i think the problem in american politics right now is that even the conversation in a time as serious as this is too much about the politicians. it is about who's up and who's down. who's in and who's out. meanwhile ordinary, hard working families are wondering who is

looking out for them. maybe it's because i spent my life not in politics but in the parish. i tend to think of this, you know, in the way a shepherd does, a pastor does, which is why i'm trying to get an insulin bill passed right now which would cap the cost of insulin out of pocket cost to $35 per person per month. that is because i've stood with people as they've struggled with these issues, they had to go to dialysis, dealt with an amputation. and my job is to represent the people who hired me to represent them. that is the way every single day. it still blows my mind i am able to do this work. after all, i was born a poor kid, grew up in public housing. and somehow in part through good federal public policy and i talk about this in my book. >> you have to give me a chance to talk about your book. leave time for that. >> yeah.

through pell grants and low interest student loans i was able to make it through moorehouse college >> i want to put up a quote. you said as i see it the right to vote is a defining issue of our times and this moment is the defining time in our history. a time when we must declare that our democracy belongs not to the politicians but to the people. i mean, you know, it coincides with what you're talking about right now. through these january 6th hearings we have gotten a glimpse of just how fragile our democracy is. are you worried what could happen if the right to vote, if americans -- what could happen to the right to vote if americans don't see january 6th for what it was and that was an attack on our democracy? >> well, i think all of us ought to stand up and pay attention because some things are big and in politics. there was nothing more important than the democracy itself. i think january 6th in many ways

is an extreme expression of what happens when politicians become their own highest cause. and i think that temptation is in some ways inherent in the process because after all you do stand for re-election but you ought to remember while you were elected in the first place and the work you were called to do. and that is the work that i try to stay focused on every single day. i'm certainly deeply concerned about the implications of january 6th but i'm inspired by the implications of january 5th. on january 5th georgia, a state that is a part of the former confederacy, sent its first african american senator, only the 11th in the history of our country by the way, to the united states senate. sent its first jewish senator to the united states senate. sent there by a multi racial coalition focused on the future of this country. in this moral moment we have to decide if we're going to be the

america of january 5th which is bigger than party that embraces all of us, where a kid who grew up in public housing can be a united states senator or the america of january 6th and give in to the forces of division and dem gogary? i choose january 5th. i choose democracy, freedom, justice, what dr. king called beloved community. >> well you are focused on the people and very focused on your message. and a lot of folks who come and do interviews should learn from you. the book is called "making a way out of no way" a memoir of truth, transformation, and the new american story by senator raphael warnock. thank you very much. i appreciate you coming on. please come back any time. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. a legislative stand-off coming to an end. family members of supreme court justices now set to get

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the house passing a bill today extending security protections to the immediate family members of supreme court justices. it comes just one week after a threat to justice brett

kavanaugh's life. >> the protests that have been taking place outside the justices' homes these past months are unacceptable. >> there are threats to justices across the board. >> reporter: tonight the supreme court security protection debate ends after lawmakers approved a bill to help boost police presence at the homes of supreme court justices. >> why did it take so long? six weeks ago was when the draft leak happened and the protests started at justices' homes almost immediately. >> the proposed bill expands the authority of the supreme court police to protect, quote, any member of the immediate family of the chief justice any associate justice or any officer of the supreme court if the marshal determines such protection is necessary. action on the bill had been delayed because democrats wanted to expand it to specifically include protection for staff and clerks. >> this bill has to do with the

families of supreme court justices. i support protecting them. i also support protecting their employees and their families. >> the more narrow measure took on new urgency in recent days after police say a man admitted he flew from california to maryland intending to kill supreme court justice brett kavanaugh and then himself to give his life purpose. department of homeland security officials are warning about a tense threat environment as the supreme court inches closer to potentially seismic opinions on guns and abortion. >> we're seeing threats from all parts of the political spectrum. >> protesters on both sides of the abortion debate have descended on the supreme court. protesters have also gathered at the homes of conservative justices over the last several weeks prompting some to point to this law from 1950. >> i wrote to attorney general garland a month ago asking why he wasn't enforcing the laws on the books already against judicial intimidation. >> reporter: that law designed to ban protesting outside the

homes of judges, witnesses, and jurors to try to influence the court system. >> the purpose of that statute appears to be to keep judges from being influenced by public opinion and in particular public opinion of people, possibly a mob of people outside their homes. >> reporter: meanwhile, don, we are learning new details about the man police say targeted kavanaugh. the montgomery county police chief tells cnn when that man, nicholas roski, saw u.s. marshals posted outside kavanaugh's home he turned around to contemplate his next move. he texted his sister who convinced him to call 911 and that is exactly what he did. >> thank you. evacuations in yellowstone national park as unprecedented flooding rips homes off their foundations. someone who witnessed the damage firsthand joins me next.

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massive floodwaters pummelling yellowstone park, washing out roads and bridges and cutting off electricity. visitors forced to evacuate as the park closes. check this out. this is in gardner, montana. a house collapsing into floodwaters of the yellowstone river. first, the decks fall in. there it is. then the entire house just floats away. and this is drone footage taken

by bear tooth slingshot rentals monday morning, showing damage in red lodge, montana. it's all because of heavy rainfall combined with runoff from melting snow. roads in and out of yellowstone will be closed through tomorrow. and officials say the town of gardner has been left isolated, surrounded by water. that's where elizabeth alec lives, and she joins me now. elizabeth, hi. i mean, it looks beautiful, but my goodness. i appreciate you joining us. how you doing? and your friends and neighbors as well. >> we're doing okay. actually the road just opened to the north a few hours ago. so the tourists were able to leave. they're letting people leave. they're not letting people enter at this time. so we're now open. that's good. we have access to get out to livingston, to stores and hospitals and things. and what we need. and there were hundreds, thousands maybe even of tourists stranded in town that had nowhere to go that had to be evacuated from the park and were just milling about. they came here on vacation, not to hang out in this tiny little

town of gardner, but now go into the park. but that was a bit much for the town to handle. but most of them were able to evacuate today, this afternoon. so that was good. >> well, it doesn't look like -- obviously, the complete danger is behind you because the yellowstone superintendent is warning tonight there will be another high water event in if upcoming days. what have you been hearing from officials in your town? are they preparing? >> they are preparing, but i haven't heard that we need to be that concerned again. we haven't received any sort of evacuation order. and the river, it looks like it's at least five feet lower than it was yesterday at this time. so we're not too worried right now. we haven't gotten as much rain as we had in the previous days. it rained straight three, four days in a row. and it was really the rain within yellowstone and the mountains that came down the river. the yellowstone river runs south to north.

so it actually starts in the yellowstone lake, and then it comes north to here. but this is all coming from the mountains and the lake in yellowstone and it flows north to livingston. >> you're in your backyard, right? >> in my backyard, yeah. >> you can see the yellowstone river from your backyard. we're looking at it now. you have seen debris from other homes floating down the river. do you think your house is stable under these conditions? >> yes, i believe it is. we are just barely far enough away that we didn't get water at the house level. another 6 to 12 inches and we would have, and that would have been dangerous. but we were very, very lucky. it was close. we're doing okay here. it's been scary. this time last night there were houses floating by right here. >> crazy. >> doors and windows. >> we're looking at some of the video you took of the debris. you sent us some pictures from the only grocery store in town today.

you say they were rationing off items like ground beef, which with are now completely sold out. how concerned are you about getting food? >> now that the road to livingston is open, we're pretty confident that we'll get shipments of food in tomorrow. today it was a little scary because this morning no one knew. no one knew if they were going to be able to leave town or how we would get anything in. we thought everything would have to be airlifted in. so, yeah, everything was wiped out of the grocery store and it was a little scary, because we don't have any place else to go. now that that one road is open, it was completely covered in water yesterday. but that's open now. and so we're okay. the road to mammoth going south into the park we've heard is going to be closed until next year. >> wow. >> so that -- a year the north entrance to yellowstone. >> well, we're glad you're okay. we appreciate you joining us. stay safe, okay, elizabeth? >> thanks. take care, don. >> take care. >> and thank you for watching, everyone. our coverage continues.

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