tonight, new details about the classified documents at trump's mar-a-lago home. a letter from the national archive revealing that the former president had more than 708 and pages including some of the most sensitive information this country. that doesn't even include the documents on the fbi search two weeks ago. we also learned that the archives told trump's legal team, back in may, that they were so worried about the top secret information and

dispossession that intelligence officials needed to do a damage assessment. hard to believe a trump ally actually released this letter. we'll bring in a, cnn senior legal analyst. but carrie cordero. was a former counsel to the u.s. assisted ag for national security. good evening to both of, you so, early. we now know that trump had 700 pages of classified documents in his home. the information confirmed this letter released by his own team. that is a lot of information. how damaging is it looking for trump? >> there are two parts of it. there is what donald trump and his people had in mar-a-lago. 700 pages is a heck of a lot. the highest level classified. we're talking if you look at the permit, the top slice of that to stop secret. they are at the very tip-y top point of this with sci and the segmented client information. i'm with s.a.t. which are special access programs. so the most classified classified, but with this

letter shows us that donald trump's team knew, they were told you have classified documents. and even with that. still only gave over a portion and force archives and doj to fight it off. . trump center says that this shows that the -- doesn't actually show a lot of the difference with trump. i think the key part of this letter is who is documents are these. these documents are the property of the united states government. and so the former presidents claim to them simply isn't justified. so we had access to these documents when he was the president. he did not have authority for them to be transported to mar-a-lago. the government engaged with him for over a year. try to get them to be returned. some boxes were returned. but then, they obviously had information, we've seen interviews and other

information that they gather over the course of that year and i look for his team that they understood there to be more and so these weren't his documents. eventually, they had to be able to obtain them. and the government had a responsibility to do a damage assessment, to understand what the content was of them. so that they could determine what's the impact on national security would be by the fact that these documents had basically been unsecured for over a year. >> listen, trump has been claiming that he's been so cooperative. and we're looking at this. so cooperative with the investigators here and given them whenever they want. does this letter undermined that? because if you look at the letter and all the information in there and officials from an er near. a concept that trump's team. the trump team after realizing that several of the documents weren't handed over. then it goes on for may of 2021 to the fall 2021. to january 2022.

so he has been saying i've been cooperating. people who have been his supporters have been saying, well, we haven't seen any evidence that they have been asking for this information back or for these documents back. doesn't just undermine all of that? >> i don't know how you can possibly defined the word cooperatively would happen here. trump's team has been dragging this out since last year. the letter says we were negotiating throughout 2021. until they finally start sending letters. and then subpoenas. and then a search warrant. i mean, it is almost you can almost blame doj cracks for being too patient and too accommodating here. donald trump was really being cooperative, the very zoo i would've known that, would be to see whether you turn over all documents long ago. that has not happened. that really is not a sustainable timeline. do you think we would've been in this position if they said, my mistake we will send all the information back to the national archives but.

that never happened. do you think we'll be in this position now? >> no, i think that would've been the end of it. look, the justice department was not wanting, in my judgment, to have to execute a search and go to federal court and get authority to come and that's the search of the former presidents residence. that is not a position that this justice department wanted to be a. so i view it as a last-ditch effort, for them, to be able to carry out the responsibilities to recover these documents after engaging with the former president and his legal team. and his advisors. and being on successful and being able to return. them at that point, the governor again, the documents are the property of the u.s. government. they are highly classified documents. top secret documents. they are classified by the government as causing exceptionally grave damage to the united states national security. if they were to get up. the government has an obligation to understand whether people, other people,

beyond the president had access to these documents. saw these documents. did he show them to anyone? there's a whole other piece of investigation that i would imagine is still going on and so, i think the search was a laugh or closer to a final step in actually having to. recover them didn't have to be this way. >> they just one of the documents back. maybe that's one of the final thing. who knows if they will try to prosecute him or whatever it is. whatever the final outcome. i've been the final comments they just wanted these documents back because they were so important to national security. for the last two weeks, trump has been claimed that he declassified documents before bringing them to mar-a-lago. why doesn't this letter mention any of that? but. the president is a very broad authority to declassify. the thing about is i actually have to use the authority when your president. to this point, other than donald trump and a few of his

defenders sort of claiming it now. there is no evidence that he actually did to classify anything and also we have to keep in mind the three lost that doj sighted to get that search warrant. none of them require documents to ever been classified or declassified. so large base besides the point here. >> thank you carrie, thank you, really appreciate it. i >> want to bring out the former director of national intelligence. james -- director, good evening to you. 700 pages of classified information. that is a lot of information backing into the wrong hands. >> well, exactly,. a point though that i always make in this discussion is we actually don't know yet, the content of these documents. we can infer from the classification descriptions that, potentially, this would be quite damaging. and the problem, of course, is that the documents essentially have been out of control since they left the white house.

and they are not under and have not been under any kind of secure fiscal arrangement. and there are very exacting savage for that in the government. so, potentially, this is quite damaging. and what i think the intelligence community would be looking at is an assessment of what a sophisticated adversary, meaning, russia or china could do if, in fact, they gain access to those documents. and clearly mar-a-lago has to have been a target for i suspect many for intelligence services. so this is potentially, quite concerning. >> the letter from the national archive director says that officials needed to conduct an assessment of the potential damage resulting from the apparent manner in which these materials were stored and transported and take any necessary remedial steps

wouldn't assessment like this look like? what do you think it is already been completed here? >> well, but it would look like. the process that, unfortunately, i went through it a couple of these with manning and snowden. so i'm generally familiar with the process. unfortunately, and what you would look to is actually a collective effort on the part of the intelligence community and each document would have to be assessed. the leadership for that would come from the originating agency with. if one can be identified. if the report is a summary that was drawn from many sources. then the elements of the intelligence community that contributed to that would have to participate. and in assessment. so it can be a rather the boris and tough process.

it is important that to be done. again, with the view that would could a sophisticated adversary gain if, in fact, they had access to these documents. the concern, of course, the holy grail for intelligence is that your sources -- most notably, if a source was a human sources very life could be placed in jeopardy if the document were compromised. >> so the second part of the question, i think you think is already been completed. you said it's the boris and tedious. do you think it's been done? this damage assessment already? >> well i would guess so. i would hope the intelligence community would have some preliminary insight into with these documents actually are. i am guessing, i don't know if the fbi has shared the intelligence documents with the

intelligence community. i assume they had. and bear in mind, there could be other documents that are not intelligence. it could be a defense document. there could be one report, for example, on nuclear documents. we don't know if that's true or not. if that's the case well, again, it could be extremely serious. so we'll just have to see how this unfolds. >> director we were learning just moments ago that president biden has authorized strikes against groups in syria today. what kind of message does that send? >> well, first, we can walk and chew gum at the same time. syria is still a problem. there are terrorists there. and iran, of course, has than many nefarious activities and

has supported these groups. hezbollah and lebanon for example. -- human. they certainly support some groups in syria as well. i think this is sending a message, certainly, to iran. and appropriately so. >> director clapper, thank you sir, i appreciate it. but >> thanks don. >> it is primarily in america. we've got more results coming in. the race in new york getting tighter tonight. i want to get right to cnn's bill mattingly worries at the match for us. hello, phil you've been watching the votes come in. what's the latest new york? >> we talk about primaries. on a talk about a special election. take a moment to move away from all the democratic primaries we've been paying attention to. this is a special election for antonio delgado. a representative in the hudson valley. here in the 19th district. this is the same district as it was in 2020. a district that president biden narrowly won over former

president donald trump. it is a district that donald trump won in 2016. this is a district everyone has been watching in the wake of the supreme court decision. of roe v. wade. republicans have been very keen on account executive take in this race, the way to congress, immediately. however, over the course of the last several weeks. pat ryan another county executives in the democrats have been making major headway in internal poll. and included people be talking to in both parties. if pat ryan were to win his seat tonight. when the special election. all data points you've been looking at terms of how democrats start to turn things around? have they perhaps found a crest in the red wave that sudden a lot of people are predicting headed to the midterm elections. this would be one of the clear signals yet. that something has shifted. something has changed. we don't know how much, we don't know how long it would be. but pat ryan wednesday's just this district. he wins a special action. it would be a very very big deal. so much so that over the last several weeks democrats have engage heavily on the national

level. something they have been doing. republicans have as well. very very nervous about where this can land. take a look at it right now. pat ryan, 4222 votes ahead of marc mullen are right now. 99% reporting of course what we're looking. at the cautious, it is a special election. it's a very weird time of year. we're not totally sure what turnouts are actually going to be. so i want to throw that out there right now. before trying to forgot where things are headed. but if you're a democrat a look at this result. a solid happening kansas with the abortion referendum. we saw the special elections in minnesota and in nebraska, we know nebraska won but they did a lot better than they thought we're gonna do. so who tablet does data point to get and said, it might be some chef there and the weight of roe, and the weight of any number of different claims that expired over the last several weeks. this will be the biggest data point we have a lot of time left until november. a lot of time left tonight to count these votes. however, this number right here, 4222 votes ahead for matt

ryan's special election. everyone's been paying attention to it in washington, big deal. >> so you are the number cruncher. you do good job at it. but >> i think there is a positive. but they apologize in attacks, i'm sorry. i've been here a long time. there is another nationally, but nothing like skull mattingly. >> so he was killed by police officer. in a wendy's parking lot. and now there's been a decision about charges the officers who killed rayshard brooks will won't be facing. plus a pregnant woman caught at gunpoint at a traffic stop while her kids were in the. car you are speaking to her. butt ["only wanna be with you" by hootie & the blowowfish]

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announcing today that murder and assault charges against two atlanta police officers in the fatal shooting of rayshard brooks are being dismissed. the announcement comes two years after brook, a 20 70 black man was shot and killed outside a wendy's after he fought the two officers who try to arrest him. for a dui. prosecutors say that during the struggle, brooks overpower the officer, took a taser from one of them. and ran away. and while fleeing he turned back and fired, it is highlighted there. it was then shot twice. so joining me now, former nypd lieutenant darren portrait ed former chicago police officer dimitri roberts. good evening gentlemen, good to see both of you. they are not start with you. the special prosecutor says both officers acted within the law or justified in their use of force. does the evidence support this decision? >> it is very difficult to make that assessment.

because traditionally when you have a uniformed officer working within in official capacity. one of the things that prosecutors look through the lens of graham versus connor. was this a reasonable level of force? i think it is subjective. from the outside looking in i feel as if this was excessive force. that was employed by the officer. however, the court system, more so specific the prosecutor felt otherwise. therefore they felt that it was necessary to -- >> remember the story. he was in the car, and then there was a struggle, he read, he saw the flash from the police and settles in the news because it happened around the time of the george floyd incident. attorneys for rayshard brooks and any attorney of rayshard brooks's family said that it is wrong because they use lethal force when brooks was running away. do they have a point? >> amanda, everyone in america knows i have a point. and we've been talking about the sense -- when we black and white blue in america?

was in 2016? we've been having conversations ever since then? that's almost seven years. of course they have a point. the point is that, unfortunately, in this country, and today they nature. no matter your skin color. no matter your race, creed, for social economic status. if you're having an encounter with the police. it's probably not gonna turn out well. in today's the day and age. i'll be the first to tell you, i think that's gonna share this on an hour tonight. but me, myself, to be to roberts. almost got killed on a traffic stop about the weeks ago. four weeks ago in california. that is another story for another day gone but at the end of the day, we all have to do something about this broken system. it is inherently dangerous for all of us. >> went about this, one man, let's get this out of the way and in the free time we discussed. i want you to hear. this is what the special prosecutor had to say about race being a factor. here it is. >> black lives do matter. i spent my entire career representing black victims of

crime. i will tell them that i understand that the encounters between police and the african american community, at times, are very volatile. but i'll ask him to look at the facts in this case. and this isn't one of those cases. i do understand there has to be an outreach between law enforcement and the african american communities. and i encourage that outreach to continue. >> do you agree, there is, that this isn't one of those cases? >> it's very difficult to make that assessment. what happens at the time, paul howard's district attorney in atlanta. he was advancing the charges against these officers in connection with the use of excessive force. i was on board with, it i deemed that it was appropriate. however, paul howard thus the election. so as a result of that, we have a new district attorney that came in and atlanta. and then this was subsequently led off to the independent prosecutor. i was okay with this being handled in the arena of the atlanta prosecutorial network. but it didn't happen.

that being said, this is what the independent prosecutor introduced. i don't agree with it, but at the end today, this is the standing order and connection with that decision. >> dimitri, want to play something else and talk about another story that we've been covering. this disturbing video three officers arresting a man in arkansas over the weekend. they've all been removed from duty and they are under investigation. now for this incident that i'm about to play. a reminder the, to our viewers, this is very graphic. matt this is bad. we've got to get out of here. hey.

so, dimitri, today. a lawyer representing two of the deputies involved said they were acting, quote, exactly is trained. and every expert that we have talked to says that that response does not match the training so give us the facts. >> let me give you the facts on, let's do something that's never been done in history. i want to release my whole police records to show that i have never, ever, anybody that i've known that was trained to do the job the right way. we have ever done that. and whoever saying that, and talking about it as it is a training issue. where they are trained to do that. it is ridiculous, i don't want to use any curse words on your station. but here's what i'm going to say, the same thing i said on jake tapper last week. that is humble. we've got to continue to move this conversation forward in a progressive direction. and stop talking about the things that don't matter. they are individual actions, that we later found out, don is that this gentleman got combative little bit. maybe had some mental health

issues. and i think he sped on the officers. they were punishing him. i know what punishment looks. like i was a chicago police officer. i've seen it happen too often. so now it's time to we turn the corner start having a real conversation about what is going on in this country with our law enforcement officers. and with our citizens. the only way we do that, don, is by telling the truth. about these things that happen and hold people accountable. >> dimitri, there and, thank you very much, i appreciate it. >> a pregnant woman in florida was told to shut off by deputy who pulled his gun on her traffic stop. ebony washington is here to tell her story. she is next. it's time for the biggest sale of the year, on the sleep number 360 smart bed. it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. our smart sleepers get 28 minutes more restful sleep per ght. all smart be are on sale. save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. .

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-- a routine traffic stop. -- pulled over by a bradford counter sheriff's office, when he suspected her of speeding, right? so she drove to a nearby gas station, and once she part, was handcuffed after the deputy pulled out the gun. in body cam footage obtained by cnn affiliate, she told the deputy why he hadn't pulled over sooner. listen. >> the only reason why didn't stop -- i'm a married, educated women. >> okay. >> i swear, lord knows, i'm not doing -- i was only not because it's dark out and i have four, three kids with me. i'm pregnant and i did not want them to feel uncomfortable. >> shut up about the [inaudible] don't care about the why. >> okay, so deputy jacob -- has not responded to cnn's

request for comment. ebony washington joins me now. ebony, thank you very much. walk us through what happens when you first realize you were being pulled over. we see that you put on your hazards, drove to a gas station. tell me more about your decision not to pull over that day. >> i am very familiar with the road. and the road is very dark. and i knew that there was a gas station that was ahead, about an hour. and so i just continued to drive to make sure -- -- uncomfortable as well as my children feel uncomfortable. the process of when i did arrive to the gas station, that's when the officer asked me to put my hands out of the window. -- he continued to threaten me and say he has my gun, he's not worried about anything, because i was making sure that, because of his frustration and he

presented it to me, i didn't want him to feel uncomfortable with me having to put my hand back in the window to unlock my door and put my hand back in the window, to take my seatbelt off. so, i wanted to make sure -- when he proceeded to say that, i was like, okay, i was speeding. so, i was a nervous and confused at that time, because of the things he was saying to me. that is why i told my daughter to record and the other one to call their dad, my husband. so, it was very different -- >> we played the clip of you explaining to the deputy why you drove to the gas station. and he explained that you are married, you -- why did you tell him all of that information? >> because, to me, i felt like he viewed me in a different light. i felt like, by the things he was saying, he was trying to bait me to be outside of my

character, to be a little more aggressive, to maybe either resist. and so i felt like, maybe if i informed him of these things, that i am not maybe that type of person that he may have been used to dealing with, african american, that is more aggressive or is more outspoken. and so i felt like if i explained to him that i am this type of person, i'm well put together woman, that he would not be so aggressive with me. >> i don't think -- is it unusual, to pull over to a well lighted place? i have done that before. i don't stop on the side of the interstate. i pull over to an exit and someplace is a bunch of lights. i know sometimes they may not like that, but i had an issue in georgia, -- where something similar happened. but you had three kids in the car. how are they doing and what were they thinking?

>> well, how are they doing? they are still traumatized. my youngest daughter -- there is two girls, and my son, the baby. my youngest daughter, she has bad dreams, and she wants to sleep in the bed with me. and but at the time of the pull over, my oldest daughter was trying to calm me down. because, as she could tell, i was being nervous -- her words. and she was trying to make sure i was okay. and so she was like, it's okay, mom, it's just a ticket, you are speeding. and that is what our minds say. but when he stopped me and pulled a gun on me, that's when they started to get nervous. they started to get nervous. they didn't know what's going to happen. because that was new to them as well as myself. because he had pulled the gun on the, we were all confused, like, what is going on? and so my daughter -- my youngest, who is recording, informed me afterwards that she was nervous and she did not know what's going to happen. she thought that i was about to

get shot. he pulled me away with the handcuffs, she thought i was going to jail, she wouldn't see me anymore. it was very traumatic for them. >> well, listen, to reiterate, we did reach out to the deputy in this incident for comment. and we did not hear back. we would like to have him on and get a comment from him, if he is interested. so ebony thank you, thank you for joining, us and we hope your kids are okay. >> thank you so much. >> oversized classes, non functioning heating or air conditioning, dilapidated air buildings, people in ohio's largest school district demanding better working conditions. and the teachers are going to try to get.

large out-of-state corporations have set their sights on california. they've written prop 27, to allow online sports betting. they tell us it will fund programs for the homeless. but read prop 27's fine print. 90% of profits go to out-of-state corporations, leaving almost nothing for the homeless. no real jobs are created here. but the promise between our state and our sovereign tribes would be broken forever. these out-of-state corporations don't care about california. but we do. stand with us.

public schools in columbus, ohio, walking the picket lines for the second data brought. striking over the pain with they say are dilapidated conditions and school buildings. tomorrow, is the first day of school and thousands of school children attend classes online. puck by substitute teachers. both one hopeful move to try to end the walkout. the federal media is calling for both sides, the union and the columbus board of education, to resume bargaining tomorrow afternoon. more tonight from cnn's --

>> wedowee? what >> a contract. >> when we want it? >> now. >> as students across the nation head back to class, teachers in ohio's largest school district are marking themselves absent. hitting the picket lines for the first time in nearly 50 years. the teachers union has been negotiating for months. classless plus begin on wednesday but now there is still no agreement on site. >> school bus start on wednesday. which means our children will be on -- >> we know that this is absolutely not ideal. >> the school board president, calling the decision to strike, disappointing. >> the board has demonstrated that it has worked hard to try to come to a resolution with ca. and this point, we are where we are, because cia did not determine it wanted to be a collaborative partner at the negotiation table. >> but union leaders said they were left with no choice. >> we have just reached the point where, you know, the

conditions in columbus city schools are not acceptable. covid really burned out a lot of teachers. and we are frightened if we don't put this on the forefront now, that we will just continue to break down our teachers and lose public educational together. >> their demands, smaller classes, functional heating and air conditioning, and a well rounded curriculum that includes art, music, physical education. for now, classes are being taught online. my substitute teachers. but some parents say their kids won't be logging on. for kelli freeman son, arthur, that means missing his first day in kindergarten. >> we're gonna be keeping it home. we're not gonna possum online, virtual or not. >> others worry about how their case will handle the challenge of learning from home. >> we wear that he's not gonna have that interaction with the classroom. some are not seeking educational tornadoes like charter schools. >> they apparently recalling everything kind of the day. do you have waitlist?

how soon can we get our children in? >> what student just want life to get back to normal. >> i wish we can go just back to a regular school year. >> schools across the u.s. are scrambling to fill vacancies brought on by a shortage of 300,000 teachers. the education secretary this week acknowledging that teachers should be paid more. >> the last 25 years, when you adjust for inflation, teachers have made only $29 more than they did 25 years ago. we need to do better there. >> educators report low morale and burnout. exasperated by the pandemic. meager pay, crowded classrooms, and concern about the growing number of school shootings. and change in guidance on what they are allowed to teach. >> we need to -- teachers are crucial to the start of our society. and i we need to get that focus back on. for teachers and the students, these are the ones that are going to be the citizens of tomorrow. >> for now, these instructor say the best lesson they can

teach is to strike. >> this just in, don, a federal mediator overseeing contract negotiations between columbus city schools and they teachers union has called for both parties to return to the bargaining table on wednesday. that meeting is set for 1 pm eastern time, but keep in mind, the two sides have met 22 times since march. they have not been able to iron out a deal. therefore is not clear whether the impasse could actually come to an end tomorrow. don? >> all right, lacey kavanaugh, appreciate. that >> more anger over mask mandates from critical race theory. critical thousand of teachers also found themselves caught in the middle of the culture wars. is that making the shortage even worse. we're gonna discuss that next.

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>> we have more election results tonight. and you are going to hear a lot about this race over the next couple of days. cnn is protecting that democrat pat ryan has won the special election in new york's 19th district, defeating republican mark melon our. oh -- >> republicans had been optimistic about flipping the district this year. this is a big democratic win in a battleground district that biden won narrowly in 2020. will it mean for the midterms? let's bring in mark mckinnon, who is executive producer of the circus. he is a new article out in vanity fair. and also, a former white house special senior director. thank you both for joining us. mark, before we get to this cool story, i would like to get your take on the democratic victory in the special election

in the new york battleground. republican south that they could flip it. they didn't. >> i think it is a big, deal don and i think it reflects the polling in the last week or two that shows democrats are back in the game. the historical trends for the out of party that generally do really well in off cycle elections. so, republicans were expected to sweep not only the house, but the senate, a few months ago -- now it increasingly looks like they can hold back the senate and even the house could be competitive, don, and this is a race that republicans thought they could pick up. this is could be a real canary in the coal mine. and republicans, i'm sure, it's sending a chill through the republican national committee now. >> interesting. let's turn to the dallas school district being that latest victim in the -- independent school board approving a set of policies that include restricting library materials, bathroom and

pronoun usage, and the teaching of critical race theory. the school board passed the policy with 4 to 3 vote. nayyera, what we are seeing from this dallas area school district is just the latest example of what has been happening all across the country here. education has become the latest proxy fight for what is a politically divided country. and teachers are really paying the price. >> teachers have always been on the frontlines of the culture wars because that is the next generation gets trained. but it really came out in the, pandemic, don, when parents realized exactly how hard it is to get your kids educated throughout the day. unfortunately, teachers are not making any more money, we're having to deal with the same challenges the rest of the parents were, but they were the target for all of the ire and angst. it's not new for schools to be targets of the culture wars. it's been happening whether it was the target of the --

now it's about race and challenges. what we are seeing, particularly in texas, is that when parents insert themselves as the experts, teachers do not get the support they need. teachers are understaffed, overworked and underpaid. so, we are seeing teachers simply opt out. the idea of taking a job just for the greater mission, when you are not getting any other benefit, our children are suffering because of that. >> listen, i have members of my family who are in education, teachers and counselors, and my nieces, where you are on education -- they had the time often they were working on the vacations, calling the parents, talking about with a had to do to improve their scores and on and on and on. i mean, mark, teachers are already overloaded. now they are finding themselves in these fights. how much is because there have been concerted efforts, really, by conservative groups, to make schools the center stage for these culture wars? >> well, to be part of it down,

they came through covid, it was a crushing experience for everybody, it was especially teachers -- i don't think there is a profession in america that is more underappreciated and more underpaid. the one thing that they have left is the thing that they loved, to teach with a wanted, to teach the truth. there is another example today in texas where a ban book was banned about slavery by -- and the author was the guy that the school is named after. i mean, we are going to get to it in some of these school districts, like in texas, where they are not going to call it slavery. they are going to call it a time when we had a [inaudible] because that is just more comfortable. >> well, mark is not actually cracking a joke there. that is true. there's a texas school district that wants to change the term slavery in textbooks to involuntary relocation. the challenge with that is that texas is the largest school system in the country. textbook makers from around their country base their books on with the texas school system

wants. so, if texas decides to totally do away with the teaching of slavery, the entire country will suddenly not be taught the truth about history. >> yeah. >> great point. >> it's really unbelievable. listen, we love having you on. we love this topic. we have been covering and on this program and we will continue to. so, thank you both, i appreciate, i wish we had a bit more time, but we have to get to the special election results. so thank you, and thank you for watching, everyone, our coverage continues.

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hello and welcome to our viewers and meditates around the world. i'm john vause with cnn's coverage of another round of primary races across the united states. and one of the most powerful democrats in the u.s. congress, will not be heading back to capitol hill next year. and newly-drawn new york congressional map critic antitrust matchup between incumbents, derek madeleine, and karen's only. and cnn projects matter at the chair of the judicial committee will be the democrat nominee for the next 12 district. joining me with a three year long decade long -- >> for this district not belong to me or to my opponents for that matter. it belongs only to the voters of this district. do you norcross who get on every day and believes themselves will be building -- those new yorkers get the truth the valleys of the city. you know what, i think the voters made themselves clear tonight.