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better angels of our nature. today before god and my family i am announcing i'm running for president of the united states. >> good morning, everyone. it's a big day if you want to be president. >> i am still -- >> are you jumping in? i have to check any text messages from my wife. >> my husband already texted. i know it's about the crypto -- >> she is like, really? >> yes. >> and you were watching the segment. good. to your point, a huge day, week, month -- >> who wants to be a millionaire? who wants to be a president? mike pence jumped in this morning. chris christie has jumped in. doug burgum, north dakota. this is going to be an historic battle when we talk about pence versus donald trump. his brother joins us live in a few moments. pga tour shocking the world of golf. the commissioner announce ago surprise partnership with

saudi-backed liv. >> and a live look at new york city, if you are waking up in the midwest or the northeast it might look like this. this this is smoke from the canadian wildfires. wa air quality plunging. where is it headed? this hour of "cnn this morning" starts right now. big developments in the special counsel's investigation of former president donald trump. we are learning former white house chief of staff mark meadows has testified before that federal grand jury. meadows could be a key witness on multiple fronts. >> today another witness is expected to appear before a grand jury in miami. remains unclear why the special counsel is using a grand jury in southern florida after months of relying on grand juries in washington, d.c. gathering evidence and testimony in that classified documents

case. here to explain it all to us, cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez. what do we know about today's witnesses and what's going on in florida? >> exactly what we need in the story, another mystery, right? we know that this witness any moment now is going to be walking into the federal courthouse there in miami and as you pointed out, you know, the prosecutors here, jack smith, the special council jack smith's investigators have been getting evidence, taking testimony and getting -- gathering evidence using a grand jury in washington for months and suddenly, recently they have taken testimony from witnesses there in miami. so we don't know exactly why. we know that at least one more witness beyond today is expected to appear down there. it is possible that prosecutors simply want to -- there are certain crimes that they are investigating that they believe could be brought down there

better than in washington. again, that's one of the mysteries that has emerged from all of this. >> elie honig, who will be with us in a many, said mark meadows could be the most important witness in all of this. potentially even in both probes because he is the guy next to the guy who all the questions are about all the time. >> absolutely. absolutely. i think it's very clear that he is the most important witness. again he was the former chief of staff to the former president. he was there for everything. he was there when the former president was trying to figure out how to remain in power despite losing the election. he was involved in some of the phone calls pressuring state officials to try to set aside their election results. you have his emails that the january 6th committee showed the world where he discusses the plan that they ended up following, which was to try to send alternate electors and try to figure out a way again for the former president to remain in power. on the documents investigation, again he, because he was chief

of staff, he was involved in helping to pack up essentially prepare the white house for the departure of the former president. what documents needed to be rurntd to the agencies. he was also a records custodian, someone who was in touch with the national archives when they were trying to retrieve the documents that the former president took with him. we know also, guys, that he has his own, you know, criminal exposure, legal exposure, because when he was subpoenaed to testify in georgia he pleaded the fifth. so all of that has led to a lot of speculation in the trump world, certainly people close to the former president, that mark meadows perhaps has been providing some kind of cooperation. i will read you just a part of the statement that we got from george, his very capable lawyer, who says that mr. meadows has maintained a commitment to tell the truth wherever he has a legal obligation to do so.

again, those are words that i think a lot of people around the former president have been fearing because they suspect again that mark meadows has been coope cooperating with investigators. >> for clarity, because i know you have got new reporting on this, the testimony was for both cases, right? is that the case at this point? >> that's right. we now have from a source who told our jamie gangel mark meadows was asked questions about both investigations. >> which would make sense because they are both happening -- great reporting as always, my friend. a lot of clarity as always. evan perez. >> important reporting from evan and jamie. now we know that mark meadows has testified in both cases before special counsel jack smith. it appears that smith is getting closer in making a decision in recommending charges on the former president, questions about which front that would be on. dozens of people have testified before these grand juries. let's look at a few of the key

witnesses with our senior legal analyst elie honition igen. let's start with evan corcoran, who not only wrote a lot, he recorded a lot after these meetings and all of those recordings, audio recordings, now in the hands of jack smith. >> he is an attorney. he was part of donald trump's legal team. a year ago in june of 2022. doj sent a subpoena saying we need all classified and sensitive government documents you may have at mar-a-lago. corcoran was directed by people within the trump team to this very important storage room where they were boxes of documents. he goes through the documents, pulled out 38 documents, hands them over to doj with a sworn certification that says we did our due diligence, this is all we have at mar-a-lago. turned out two months later doj does a search and finds over 100 more classified documents. so prosecutors are going to be

asking about that. and poppy, as you noted, doj actually has evan corcoran's written and recorded notes even though he was the attorney for donald trump. normally that would be protected by the attorney-client privilege. in this case prosecutors pierced through that privilege using the crime fraud exception. prosecutors convinced the judge there could be evidence of a crime, not necessarily that corcoran participated in, in the noaa note. very rare that prosecutors get them. >> to the storage room for a second. remind us who was actually moving the boxes out at that key moment? >> yes. this is again the key storage room. walt nada. he was donald trump's valet, his body person. he originally told investigators that, well, i don't know anything about classified documents. turned out later he took that back and said, actually, because he was caught on surveillance, i did move boxes in and out of this storage room. we know that because of

surveillance video. also helping out mr. naugta an unknown maintenance worker moving boxes in and out of that storage room. also that same maintenance worker is the person who our reporting tells us drained this pool, the water then ran into a room that house the servers that housed the surveillance video. we don't know, prosecutors surely are trying to figure out whether that was on purpose or unintentional. so that is the unknown maintenance worker. then, finally, we know that matthew calamari senior and junior in charge of security for the trump organization testified about the surveillance video as the heads of security. they were in charge of maintaining it and we have reporting that they were asked about how surveillance video was maintained, whether any might be missing, whether it could be tampered with. we are getting a sense with, and given evan perez's reporting, add mark meadows to the list. we are getting a sense of what the witness list might look

like. >> so grateful we have you especially on days like today. thank you. joining us is former trump tern timothy pal tori. evan reported that mark meadows has been asked about classified documents and january 6th. what would he have testified about, your -- i guess my question is are you concerned that mark meadows testifying to a grand jury or would his current legal team be concerned given the scale of his knowledge about the former president and his time? >> well, you know, certainly when i was a member of the team i wasn't concerned about any of these witnesses because while we certainly did fight issues of privilege to make sure that those things are maintained, our position always was as long as everybody tells the truth, that is the best defense. so if mark meadows went in and told everything as actually happened, i think that that's going to be perfectly fine.

>> could i follow up on that? between text messages that we have all seen because they were revealed by the committee between staffers that have been around him, i think there were a lot of questions raised about whether or not on several fronts mark meadows had information or was aware of information or was in rooms tied to information that would present potential legal jeopardy not just for him, but also potentially for the former president as well. you were saying explicitly not possible. there is absolutely nothing mark meadows could have said or known about that would be problematic? >> no. what i'm saying is based on the information that i have, if he goes in and tells the truth as his lawyer said that he did, then he is going to be able to place all these things in context so that people can understand that there is an explanation for these things that is very different from what the public narrative has been. >> how do you explain defying a subpoena and keeping classified documents?

>> well, who defied a subpoena? you know, the -- >> more than 100 documents -- >> as a -- sure. well, first of all, if we look at the actual evidence in this case as opposed to some of the leaked public narrative, what happened was a subpoena was issued, a certain period of time is given for compliance, additional time is requested. the additional time needed was not granted. evan did the search that he was able to within the period of time that he was given. he gave a certification saying this is what i found during that diligent cinch. actually signed by bob. and then whereas, normally you would have informations with doj about continuing searches, you know, they would -- you know, any time i talk with a u.s. attorney they would say give us what you can within that period of time but we'd like you to keep searching. that didn't happen. jay brandt cut it off and said,

no, do everything by this date. he gave everything he could by that date and then there was no continued conversations as they would be with any professional u.s. attorney's office. any subsequent serves that were after the time period in which evan had to search, a lot of that could have been avoided through, you know, normal interactions. you know, this is something that we codo all the time. elie honig and i this a case years ago, we worked well together these types of things. that is not how this doj cteam handled it. they create this situation where you can then say they ignored a subpoena, but that's not the reality when you get down to the brass tacks of the actual facts here. >> i want to play for you, given that point, and this has been a consistent point you and some of the current legal team made, you sound from the former attorney general, bill barr, obviously, in the trump administration. take a listen. >> i think over time people will see that this is not a case of

the department of justice, you know, conducting a witch hunt. they approached this very delicately and with deference to the president and this would have gone nowhere had the president just returned the documents. he jerked them around for a year and a half. the go question is, did he deceive them? >> that's the dissonance between when w what you are laying out. bill barr is not somebody who would want to take down the former president. what is your response to that? >> sure. that's a great word you used, dissonance, because there is with this case and many cases a dissonance between what is actually happened, what the full facts are, and what selected portions get put out into the public sphere. bill barr is making a comment based on the information he has been provided which is definitely not everything. it's certainly not in context. and it's one of the reasons why i have been willing to come out

at this time. i am a former member of the team. i am not here to defend the president. i am here to answer request kegs about, you know, what the facts are to the ex tenltd i can say legally and what the actual law is as opposed to to the spin going on. >> we learned there is a second grand jury in these probes in florida. there are venue questions, right? this is legally a part of an alleged crime has to have happened with a grand jury is convened. what are your thoughts on the fact that a key witness we know going before the grand jury today, i believe. i understand that florida may be a more desirable jury pool for the president's legal team. correct me if i'm wrong. what do you tmake of the fact that there is a second grand jury in florida? >> well, you know, i would actually put it in the inverse, that d.c. is a more favorable jury pool for what jack smith wants. they started that investigation in d.c.

they have had all these witnesses before the d.c. grand jury without ever really examining is there venue in d.c. and so i interpret this action as them getting down to the end trying to make a decision and saying, uh-oh, we totally forgot one of these threshold issues and, you know, now they have to kind of go back and fix a lot of the mistakes that they made. you know, if this was something where they were going to do a grand jury investigation and ultimately just issue a report as opposed to an indictment, then there is no court in which we would be challenging the sufficiency of any, you know, venue or, you know, whether a warrant was properly issued or anything like that. and if they are actually considering now, you know, to go the indictment route, they have to go back and fix a lot of the mistakes. and don't forget this is an investigation that started before jack smith got involved.

the national security division as opposed to the criminal division started in may of last year. so now that they have more of the professional experienced criminal prosecutors on the case they have to go back and fix things. >> we don't have a lot of time left. did you raise while you were there issues of venue to the special counsel's team to jack smith at any point? >> unfortunately your question presupposes that we had actual conversations with that team. it was not something that they were really open to having conversations about anything with us. at least while i was there. >> that's a no? >> no. no, unfortunately. i would have liked to. >> those conversations happened at least one. tim parlatore, thank you. so really this morning it was suppose d d to be sunny. heavy smoke from canadian wildfires is blanking the sky.

the air quality in manhattan among the worst in the entire world. tens of millions of americans from minnesota to new england to north carolina are at risk of breathing unhealthy air today. forecasters say we could see more and more rounds of smoke through tomorrow at least as wildfires continue to rage out of control in quebec and canada. wearing a mask, you know, i think a lot of people will be today as they commute to and from work. >> hi, good morning. that's right. we have seen some people out on the street already wear masks walking their dogs, one while running. we are seeing a lot of people doing their usual morning routine, out here along the west side highway on the hudson river going for a run. we saw a sightseeing boat take off a little while ago. in the distance, that is jersey city. you can usually make out the statue of liberty. but again this is serious issue that the new york mayor, eric

adams, is going to be talking about in a couple of hours in terms of what we can expect here. we know that schools, public schools here in new york are going to be open, but all outdoor activity has been canceled because of the danger of the smoke. we also saw several school districts in central new york, north of here, so closer to quebec where the fires are burning, canceling. what it comes down to, this air quality index level is unhealthy for sensitive people. so young children, elderly, people who are pregnant, people with respiratory issues or cardiovascular issues. wildfire smoke, like burning fossil fuels and other things, has a lot of tiny dangerous poll pollutants that can get in the lungs and cause major health problems. >> thank you. i think a lot of folks are listening as they get ready to leave for work, get the kids to school. all right. protests turning violent outside

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of the greatest nation on earth are yet to come. >> that is the announcement from former vice president mike pence announcing his run for the white house in a new video released early this morning. setting up quite a battle with his former boss donald trump notably missing from the video any images of former president trump. u.s. history only had a hand of instances where a vice president run against a president. pence will hold a rally in tee moin, iowa, later today his campaign says he will lead on his conservative and religious ideals. also headline a town hall tonight moderated by our friend dana bash. joining greg pence of indiana. nice to have you. thanks for coming on "cnn this morning." >> good morning, poppy and phil. >> your brother has said a lot of nice things about the former president. a lot of them. is that gonna change now that he is running against him? will he directly take on trump? we know chris christie will. will your brother?

>> well, poppy, i'm not going to spoil the evening on his announcement this afternoon and then tonight, right? >> woo. >> but i will say i have to be nice to him today. i am his older brother, as most people know, and today he's turning 64 years old. so i am going to wish him happy birthday and let him speak for himself. >> no all seriousness, that's not a no. >> are you leading that intentionally ambiguous? >> i honestly don't know what he is going to say. you know, that's a benefit of being older brother. you don't have to pay attention to your younger brothers. >> somewhat tied to that, slightly more serious note, one of the questions i have long had, you voted to reject the electors in one state back on january 6th. your brother has been very clear about his belief and views of his legal authority, which i think have been backed up by

lawyers on both sides of the aisle. do you feel like you made the wrong decision there or do you still disagree about his role on january 6th and what he was either able to do or should have done? >> well, you know, it's interesting, phil. i get that question a lot. my constitutional duty along with the other 434 people was to vote when a vote was called for as a presider of the joint session between the house and the senate. he did what he was supposed to do. so there was no disagreement between us in my vote, yes or no, or how i voted. of course, he didn't vote. he did what he was supposed to do. >> you did vote to object to pennsylvania's presidential electoral college result in 2020. i think to build on what phil is getting to here, your brother said last year he was speaking to the federal society in florida and he said it is, quote, un-american to suggest that one person could have decided the outcome.

he said, anounder the constitut i had no right to change the outcome of your election. do you believe that is accurate? do you believe -- or do you believe your brother did have that power? >> well, today since it's his birthday, let's keep it about michael, my brother, okay? i think he was referring to his position as a vice president of the united states and whether he had the authority to do anything different than what he did. and his actions speak louder than words. he did what he said. >> so, since it is your brother's birthday, are you going to endorse your brother when he announces his candidacy for president? >> i am absolutely. i am going to speak this afternoon around noon in support of my brother. after all, my mother is watching right now, so i have to be supportive. >> one of the things that i think is going to be really interesting to watch here is how

your brother convinces a majority of republicans who are standing behind trump, many of o whom believe trump when he says the 2020 election was stolen from him, which is not factually true, how does mike pence convince them all that they are wrong? >> well, i think my brother, my brother was my congressman for 12 years. he was my governor for four. and, of course, all of our vice president for four. i think he will talk about the future. i think he always has talked about the future and i think that's what you'll hear today. you know, in the good book it says, if they are not against us, they are for us. i think my brother's for the future. he is not going to look back. he is going to talk about what his vision for america is going forward. and i think he is the right man at the right time in this country. >> come back. wish we had a little bit more time with you, congressman. >> i feel like you have the easy

way out to endorse your brother instead of wag the other candidates. this is an unfair advantage you have in this -- >> i am endorsing him. >> i know. it's unfair. it's an easy way out because you don't have to try to figure it out through the dynamics of the primaries. >> i know him very well. >> appreciate it, sir. we appreciate you. >> he is the right guy. >> thank you very much, sir. >> thank you. >> please do come back. >> tune in tonight, dana bash moderates the cnn republican town hall that may be even more exciting than we were expecting given what mike pence's brother just said, 9:00 p.m. eastern tonight. i am going to leave you in great hands with sara sidner, here early so i can go watch my son graduate from preschool. thank you, my friend. i'll see you tomorrow. >> is this a personal thing? >> no. >> are you sure? have fun. enjoy the graduation. >> thank you. okay. got to make it. >> all right. now to more news. golfers and fans around the world reacting to the pga tour's announcement, a surprise

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new video shows fights breaking out at a protest in glendale, california, in los angeles county, on tuesday outside a school district meeting to debate recognizing pride month. tension boiled over when the 200 demonstrators were debating gender and identification studies not on the agenda for the meeting. 50 officers ended up showing up on the scene. they couldn't de-escalate the crowd. in the end, three people were arrested. school administrators point out many of the protesters didn't have students in the district. graduates and their families left running for their lives after a gunman opened fire outside a commencement ceremony in richmond, virginia. the ceremony just ended when police say a 19-year-old gunman

opened fire yesterday. two peo were killed. five others are injured. a witness described what they saw. >> just everybody started running and pushed her down to ground. we got down on the ground and it was just chaos from there. you just kept hearing shots. it was like eight, nine, ten shots. >> the attack is one of at least 279 mass shootings in the u.s. this year. cnn's brian todd is with us live from richmond. what do we know about the suspect at this point? >> reporter: well, phil, we know from police that suspect is a 19-year-old male. i am going to tell you more about him in a second. you heard that witness talk about chaos. that is what police are telling us unfolded at the scene, too. police saying that the graduation ceremonies were taking place inside there at the altria theater when the ceremonies were finished one of the ceremonies was finished people started spilling out and into monroe park here taking pictures, doing the usual stuff after graduation.

we are told by police that there were hundreds of people in monroe park when the shots started to ring out. and from amateur video we observed, we saw two of the victims being treated right around here. one of them was laid out right there. another one was in this area here. of course, we now know two of the victims died, five others injured, one suffering life-threatening injuries. the interim police chief rick edwards talked about that suspect. here is what chief had to say about that. >> another individual is in custody who is 19 years old who we believe was involved in the shooting. we plan on seeking charges for second-degree murder times two for that individual. more potential charges to follow. we think that the suspect knew at least one of the victims. the subject is a 19-year-old suspect, a male, and i am unclear if he is currently a student. >> reporter: and some other details that the police chief

gave last night was that the suspect actually fled on foot and that security officers, not police, but security officers from virginia commonwealth university, not far away from here, they were the ones who actually apprehended the suspect and took him into custody. not richmond police, but several police agencies did respond immediately to the shooting. that suspect fleeing on foot. then taken into custody by university security officers. to give you a sense, phil, of, you know, another sense of the chaos that unfolded here, police say a 9-year-old girl was struck by a car in the mayhem that occurred. luckily, she has non-life-threatening injuries. phil. >> thanks so much. great reporting. saudi arabia clinching a major victory in the world of sports as the pga tour agrees to partner with liv golf. how players and fans are reacting and why 9/11 families are seething. golf not the only sport the saudis are looking to take on.

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we just got this in. taylor buttigieg, has arrived at the federal courthouse in miami so appear before a grand jury as part of special counsel jack smith's investigation. the former president's handling of classified documents. now, remains unclear why the special counsel is using a grand jury in south florida after months of relying on grand juries in washington, d.c., used to gather information and evidence and witness testimony in this case. we will keep you posted as we learn more. all right. this actually is shocking. it is a shocking reversal as at the pga announces it will now be partnering with saudi-backed liv golf in a move that surprised even some pga golfers themselves. colin morikawa tweeted i love finding out morning news on twitter. obviously, sarcasm. last year the pga's commissioner jay monahan criticized golfers

who left the tour to pursue bigger paychecks for liv golf reminding everyone of saudi arabia's ties to the terrorist attacks of september 11. listen. >> i think you have to be living under a rock to not know that there are significant implications and as it relates to the families of 9/11, i have two families that are close to me that lost loved ones. so my heart goes out to them. and i would ask, you know, any player that has left or any player that would ever consider leaving, have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the pga tour? >> and here is where the message shifts. same individuals, same issue, yesterday. >> i recognize that people are going to call me a hypocrite and anytime i have said anything, i aid it with the information i had at that moment and i said it based on someone that's trying to compete for the pga tour and

our players. and so i accept those criticisms. but circumstances do change. >> well, a group representing the families of september 11th victims is slamming the mo move saying the pga and monahan appear to do have become paid saudi schillings taking billions of dollars to cleanse the saudi reputation. join to discuss, cnn contributor and veteran sportscaster bob costas. so we have been stunned. i have been following every turn of this. can you tell people just broaden it out, what actually happened here? i am not sure i understand this. >> i think it dawned on the pga and jay monahan, as the head of the organization, that they couldn't wait the saudis out. the saudis have a bottomless well of money. some $600 billion. so even though the pga tour upped the prize money, put in

special events, made some concessions to those who didn't defect and stayed, they figured out in the long run this isn't going to work. i think they hoped when the exemptions ran out from those automatically in the majors, which is what most of the public pays attention to. like brooks koepka a liv golfer, to play in the majors, masters, whatever, and koepka won the pga recently, there was no way to wait these guys out. instead, they merge. the difference is, this isn't the nfl and the afl, the nba and the aba, because there is no moral objection. those were straight business deals. we don't have to go through chapter and verse about the moral objections here. and it continue just 9/11. it's jamal khashoggi and the ongoing human rights abuses within saudi arabia itself. >> we are going to talk a little bit more about the 9/11 families because in part brian dechambeau, a former pga golfer who left the tour to go to liv for what was reported to be

somewhere in the $100 million range, he was asked about what he says to the 9/11 families. let me let you listen. >> i don't know exactly what they are feeling. i can't ever know what they feel. but i have a huge amount of respect for their position, what they believe, nor do i want anything like that to ever occur again. as we move forward, we have to look forward to the pathway to peace, especially in forgiveness trying to mend the world and make it a better place. i think this is what they are trying to accomplish, liv is trying to accomplish, we are all trying to accomplish, a better world for everybody. >> peace, forgiveness. is that what this is about or is this just about money? >> yeah. bryson is a golfer. he can't be expected to have the best grasp on all the dynamics of this. here is where peace comes in. litigation on both sides.

there were suits and counter suits. now the litigation goes away. who knows what the pga may have feared in terms of what might have come out in discovery. they have non-profit tax-exempt status. that may be im perilled by the publically surrounding this. but they didn't want to risk that ongoing litigation. so now they will tans dance wit devil, i guess. >> a morality issue. the thing that bothered me is the, one, the rank of hypocrisy from the pga. and two, the fact that they leveraged the 9/11 families. it's just the reality. they are playing a lobbies on capitol hill, tethered to that who have to do a complete 180. the u.s. secretary of state is in riyadh right now, the u.s. government considers an ally, saudi arabia. why should sports have to require some level of moral purity or -- >> i think it's because of the visibility.

you know, the saudi regime, the private investment fund, is invested elsewhere. uber and other u.s. companies and companies around the world. but the reason you get in bed with sports is because of the general good feeling that sports generates. nobody knows the names of the uber people, but they know phil mickelson, brooks koepka and bryson dechambeau and know that rory mcilroy and tiger woods wouldn't go and they leveraged the 9/11 families and the whole issue and then that issue was swept away. at least for them. >> for them. it's having soccer, too. i mean, the scale is something else. >> owning, putting money into more -- they are looking for bigger teams. >> yeah. >> money. >> bob costas, thanks so much. appreciate it. >> money over morality, as some put it. >> pretty good through line throughout history to some degree. happening today, hundreds of

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so we've got pence, we've got christie, so many north dakota governor doug burgum, they have all thrown their hats and names into the 2024 race for president. crushing the prompter read. joining us now is cnn senior data analyst harry enten, reporter, analyst, always crushes prompter reads. you have the number of the day,

the morning number. tell me what it is. tell me your story, harry. >> tell me your story. this morning's number is ten because that's now the number of republicans running for president if doug burgum announces today, as expected. i want to give you an idea that this is a bigger primary field than i think i expected. why? because i want to look at the size of primary fields when the early polling leader is polling at 50% plus. 2016 dems it was six, 2000 dems it was two. so this is a very large field. now, phil, let's talk about the candidates who are just entering the race this week. mike pence, chris christie, doug burgum. trump leads the gop field at 54%. look at where these folks are. pence is at 4%, christie is at 1%, burgum is at 1%. you might be asking can these candidates make a come back given they are 50 points behind the leader. let's take a look through history. nominees who trail by the most

in the early primary polls, how far back were they but they still went on to win the nomination? george mcgovern in 1972 was 28 points back, jimmy carter was 18 points back, barack obama was 15 points back. so the idea that a candidate would dom back from being down 50 points doesn't line up with history, but, hey, history may be made to be broken. the other little thing i will note is just candidates announcing the latest primary winners entered the race, bill clinton was the latest august 16th, ronald reagan we are already past this point at may 18th. it's very late to get in if, in fact, you want to be the party's nominee for president. >> we have all your slides and i appreciate that and i appreciate you. i appreciate the number. i appreciate you looking at me and talking to me. harry enten, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> good news for everybody, more tv. cnn's "news central" starts right now. good day