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website different from billo'reilly.com. word of the day, no torpor when writing to the factor. miss megyn is next. the spin stops here, we're looking out for you. we are tracking a nail biter of a senate primary runoff race in mississippi, that pairs an establishment guy against a tea party guy, and whoa! is it getting interesting. it comes in a season of political surprises where some americans seem to be telling washington, they're mad as hell and they're not going to take it any more. good evening, everybody, welcome to the kelly file, i'm megyn kelly. we have seen political history being made as several big name incumbents have been voted out. tonight's cliffhanger features a guy who first went to washington when nixon was in the white house. right now, six term incumbent
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thad cochran with 52% of the vote with chris mcdaniel's 44.8% of the vote. it's early still we are also keeping a close eye on new york's 13th district where charlie rangel is in a tough fight for his third term on capitol hill. did you know he's 84 years old? 84, and fighting to hold on to his job. the polls close jud just a mome ago, his challenger is adriaadriano adriano espaillat. the polls are closing in the west as well many in colorado, tom tancredo the incumbent is favored in that race. joining me is brett baer.
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is he really 84? that's not really the headline. but thad cochran, if you were the same age as thad, we were one-year-old babies in our cribs when thad cochrans went to washington, and now we're old 43-year-olds who may be sitting on the anchor desk when he goes out. >> that's a good sign looking at the turnout numbers. he has been trying over the last few weeks, to put together a coalition. some of them may be democrats, some of them may be moderate republicans. some may be independent. anybody can vote in mississippi's special election runoff primary here, except the 86,000 democrats who voted in the june 3rd democratic primary. and basically cochran is trying to tap into all of those folks to say, hey, listen, i can take care of bringing federal spending back to mississippi.
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and it is so interesting to see this battle, because on the other side, state senator chris mcdaniel is saying, we don't need more federal spending, we need less. he's obviously the tea party favorite. >> explain to us why this is the republican primary runoff. i mean, normally not the lead story on the fox news channel at 9:00 p.m., even on an election primary night. why is it tonight? >> because i'm a big nerd and you want to indulge me. that's probably not why. >> that's the secret undercurrent of everything. >> no, the reality is. this is a big deal, because it never happens, and you never get to this point. you seldom get to this point. over the last 30 years, there have only been six senate incumbents period who lost. and only one, that was in 2012 that really lost outright. >> what you're saying is, it's so rare, that begs the question, why is it happening ton in the i
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mean, is it this rise of the tea party or is it this anti-incumbent, we're sick of these guys that don't listen to us? that kind of thing we saw with eric cantor? what is it. >> what would happen if the people who were continually disgusted with congress, what would happen if those people realizes they could change that. often times folks give up, often times the left -- both sides as well. the incumbent often wins, just go with that. when things happen like the eric cantor election, or the toppling of hillary clinton in 2008, it reminds people there are consequences. when people are as angry as they are now. when people are this angry, consequences start to be felt on candidates. >> this guy mcdaniel is running as sort of mississippi's ted cruz, which is proven to be very appealing to a lot of republicans. >> yeah, i mean, he's 42 years
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old. he is -- he says it's time for a new face, new change in washington. and he's tapping into that overall, not just in the republican party, but in both parties as you mentioned, that washington needs to change, period. you know, charlie rangel is basically facing the same thing in new york, looking for his 23rd term. mcdaniel has tapped into this fervor from conservatives, and seeing that house majority leader alead leader eric cantor lose to dave brath in richmond, just down the road, i think that fired a lot of them up. you'll see tonight whether they came out in big numbers. cochran is hoping he can mobilize everyone else to counter that. he has thrown everything at it. senator john mccain was campaigning. brett favre cut a radio ad. he's tapping the establishment. >> very confusing, brett favre played for wisconsin.
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>> anyway, my husband explained it to me, but it's all a blur now. what do these early numbers tell us so far? are you reading anything into this? so far, it's good for him. you look at the counties that are still remaining to come in, whether they would typically favor the other candidate. >> anything could happen at this point, the turnouts are across the board, not just where cochran wanted to turn it out. also, where mcdaniel needed to outperform. the national conservative groups that have been pouring money into mississippi, what's surprising is, that in a runoff, where normally you would see the electric shrink, the electric's growing across the state. people are engaged, and you saw the way that people turned out. so it's a jump ball right now, but cochran has to like a larger electora electorate. simply put, the bigger turnout tonight, the better for the incumbent. >> i want to tell the viewers, more conservatives, sort of tea party groups have poll watchers
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at these elections, to make sure that democrats who voted in the first primary -- they want to protect their guy, they assume the democrats are going to vote for thad cochran. thad has his poll watchers, a lot of his poll watchers are democrats, that has the tea party folks saying see, we told you, he's not a real republican. it's getting sort of sloppy down there. guys, back to you, when it's time for cleanup. while senator cochran has been reaching out to voters across the political spectrum. his challenger has been campaigning with some familiar faces. including rick santorum. he joins us live now from washington. senator, good to see you tonight. what -- you know, i just said that he's running a sort of mississippi ted cruz. and ted cruz engenders a lot of strong feelings in people. he's a rock star among a certain wing of the republican party. >> no question about it, and chris is a rock star in mississippi. this is a guy with a record, i
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mean, he's had a record of fighting haley barbour when he was governor. he has a long record of accomplishment, getting things done for the conservative cause. >> excuse me for interrupting you. what's different between mcdaniel and the incumbent, the guy who's been there for the last 40 years? >> i think chris is a fighter, someone who is really fixated on shrinking the size of government. thad cochran is a good man, but he came from a different era of politics, and has seen government grow remarkably as a lead appropriator in the united states senate. so there's a pretty clear contrast on size and scale of government between these two candidates. >> i mean, that's the irony, that the guys were just pointing out. thad cochran is running on that. he's going to the folks in mississippi saying, trust me, i will take care of you. isn't that what the voters want to hear after they kicked eric cantor out of office for not responding to what the people at home were saying? >> well, it's a -- i mean, it's
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a real tussle down in mississippi, they've had katrina, a lot of years of tough times economically in mississippi, and having those dollars coming to mississippi has been something that's been quite popular, but there's a growing element, not just in mississippi, but across this country that says, you know what, enough is enough, we can't afford to do this any more, we have to get our budgets in order, and that's what chris has tapped into. i think amazingly well, the fact that there's a higher turnout in areas that he's doing well is a real remarkable thing, where he just is appealing to base republican voters to come out and try to overcome this move to the left by senator cochran to get democrats to come and join him. i'm impressed that both sides have cranked their turnout. >> you have mike lee, ted cruz, if we have mcdaniels, that will be somebody else along that vein. first these guys got to congress, and people said they're outliers, radicals,
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extremists. not in the way we use that term about terrorists. do you think that's the future of the republican party? >> first of all, people believe in the constitution, how can you look at a government that is now trillions and trillions of dollars in spending more than we take in. and say it's extreme to get this government downsized and try to balance our budget. >> i don't think that's extreme. and i really take exception to anybody that suggested we abide by the constitution and limit our government. that that's somehow extreme. these are people who care about the future of our country, are passionate. i met chris's two small children. and i can tell you, he loves those kids. he comes from a great family background of schoolteachers. and he loves this country as all of the tea party folks do, and they simply want a little bit more control of their own lives and less government intervention. >> you're speaking on social issues. i think you would back me up on this. in general, they're more about
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limited government. and they -- that's what they campaign on. >> it's about liberty, it is about the size and scale of government. and the encroachment of government, that is not extreme. i know we throw that word around any more, but don't accept the verbiage of the left, the ones who are extreme are the people who have just exploded this government and intrusiveness of people's lives, that's extreme. >> good to see you. >> we're watching the vote. you saw thad cochran with 55% of the vote in the lead. we will stay on this throughout the evening. we've also got breaking news on what our top intelligence officials are calling a direct threat to the u.s. homeland. lieutenant colonel oliver north is next on the new warnings and the new polls showing what voters think about the leadership from the white house. plus, the folks at the irs
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think they've answered all the questions about this scandal over targeting conservatives, they better stay tuned for what we have just ahead. >> i'm going to ask you again, what statutes have you evaluated? >> i think you can rely on common sense that nothing i have seen -- >> common sense instead of the criminal code, you want to rely on common sense. you can shake your head all you want to, commissioner. ound for w opportunity. a kitchen that kick starts careers wells fargo invests in our communities a little differently. small measures that add up to make our whole even greater. little by little we can do a lot. because... small is huge. visit www.wellsfargo.com to see how big small can be. it says here that a woman's sex drive. increases the age of 80. helps reduce the risk of heartisease.
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being called a threat to u.s. national security. just hours ago, a closed door briefing on the chaos in iraq, prompted multiple senators to emerge and declare that isis, the group now in control of one third of iraq is a direct threat to our homeland. there are new fox polls tonight showing 58% of voters describe our commander in chief's leadership disengaged and slow to react. oliver north is host of war stories and author of the new book, counterfeit lies. tonight the american people say they do not want to go back into iraq by a healthy majority, they also say they disapprove in record numbers of president obama's approach to foreign policy, and disapprove of the way he's handling this situation as well. your take on it. is there a failure of leadership here? >> i don't think it's just a matter of being detached or
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disengaged. i think it's also his inexperienced, his ideological blinders, his incompetence, failure to lead, and this cascade ofself inflicted catastrophes and cover-ups. as you pointed out, just 29% believe he has insufficient foreign policy to become president. barack obama has not grown into the office. his foreign policy keeps getting worse. fast and furious, the arab spring, egypt, libya, the syrian red lines, benghazi, ukraine, the bergdahl five swap. and now this catastrophe in iraq, the whole idea of our standing in the world, the question on that poll is reality. >> let's put that on the board. we haven't shown that poll yet. the united states lost some of its standing in the world, and look at the results. 80% say yes. >> the american people see it. look, our friends no longer
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trust us. our enemies no longer respect -- and they certainly don't fear us. think of the leaders in riyhad, amman, jerusalem, seoul, tokyo, they're worried and being very clear about it. the next disaster is the eye rangian weapons field, the subject of that book. by the way, megyn you're on page 87 of that book. you're one of the good guys. they all ask, when i go overseas, where's megyn. >> right here. >> you're much popular with the troops than obama. you know what they called december 2012? obama bugout. >> people supported pulling troops out of iraq, which is why colonel, it's curious, when you see barack obama asked,
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specifically, do you regret p l pulling all of the troops out of iraq? you think he would stand by the decision he once made and defended in a debate with m.iit romney and so on. this is what we got. >> do you wish you had left a residual force in iraq. any regrets about that decision in 2011. >> that wasn't a decision made by me, it was a decision made by the iraqi government. >> well, we all know he could have, if he wanted to. he could have left enough troops that maliki would have agreed to. by the time he cut it down to 3,000, maliki realized it was going to take closer to the 20,000. he said we're going to deny terrorist safe havens, but he's already ruled out u.s. raids and air strikes in syria. those are mutually exclusive
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requirements. those are the kinds of things we created as a disaster in a place called vietnam. i don't want isis roaming through syria. if you're going to attack, you may as well go big time. he's not planning for that if he has all these other rules in place. >> i know your biggest concern now is a nuclear bomb? >> yeah, i think where we're headed. this is going to be the next catastrophe, in two more weeks. they're going to announce the deal he and kerry have already negotiated with the iranians. the iranians are still going to get a nuclear bomb. that's what that book is all about. neither he nor mr. kerry in this trip that he's just made in the middle east would deny that they're going to sit down and talk to the iranians, that makes us very vulnerable. the iranians are not our friends. they are our enemies, and everybody else in that part of the world is looking at it, they know. and what we're doing is basically making it easy for
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them to reopen a supply route all the way out to alkaim, it's in the hands of isil. if they're going to re-establish the shiite government, they're going to have to reopen that route across iraq in order to support assad, damascus and hez bol low. >> you have to wonder what israel thinks looking at iran, stepping into iraq, and who is left to root for. colonel oliver north, thank you. we are just getting updated results in this fierce political fight in mississippi. we have almost 30% of the vote in here. senator cochran is still ahead. we're missing 73% of the vote thus far. the white house had to answer tough questions over the targeting of conservatives. wait until you see what happened next. >> did you or did you not know
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that you had all the e-mails. >> i did not know one way or the other. >> why did you say we can find -- >> lois lerner's e-mails. and we did find. >> what percentage of them. >> are we not supposed to ask you what percentage? is that not clear? and the rush i get, lasts way more than an hour. (announcer) at scottrade, we share your passion for trading. that's why we've built powerful technology to alert you to your next opportunity. because at scottrade, our passion is to power yours. nobody ever stomped their foot and asked for less. because what we all really want... ...is more. there's a reason it's called an "all you can eat" buffet. and not a "have just a little buffet". that's the idea behind the more everything plan.
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have reported thus far. and there's a question whether tancredo would get this nomination, he's seen by some on the further right end of the republican party. we hope to have fresh results from new york and mississippi in moments. we also have new developments tonight in the irs targeting scandal. new fox news polls show 76% of voters believe the e-mails missing from lois lerner were deliberately destroyed. that crosses mattparty lines. back on capitol hill, a series of contentious meetings. the american people have been misled by this agency, and now he's being accused of being really ridiculously air began the. see what you think. >> what i didn't hear in that was an apology to this committee. i don't think an apology is owed. >> i had a long career, that's
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the first time anybody has said they do not believe me. >> i don't believe you. >> did you cause someone to find out at the white house that treasury or your ig? >> i did not. if you have any evidence of that, i'd be happy to see it. >> i asked a question, and i answered it. >> i did not say i would provide you e-mails. if you have a magical way of doing that. >> if it applies to the taxpayer, it ought to apply to the irs as well, correct? >> is this a trial? i practiced law 40 years ago, i gave it up for lent and never went back. >> i heard kramer caskill saying his arrogance is not helping. >> it is not helping. the person who should be talking about this is the irs commissioner. instead of being forthcoming and saying, i apologize, maybe you don't have everything you've asked of me, and maybe i haven't
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produced the e-mails i said i would produce in march. but i'm going to do everything i can to gain your credibility back, and make you believe me. i apologize you think i'm not telling the truth, i am and i'm going to tell you why. instead he has the nerve to do this when we're talking about american citizens whose rights are violated. this is not a republican thing. 74% of independences and 63% of democrats think these e-mails were destroyed. 66% of democrats think that this should be investigated until someone is held accountable. >> across party lines? >> absolutely. >> they always used to teach us, when you go into court, and you represent a client. you go in with your hat in hand if you have something to apologize for. if there's something you've done wrong, you go in hat in hand. there's no question that the irs did something wrong here they've
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admitted that, okay? that's not in dispute. so why is he going before congress so -- so snarkily. he's snarky. i know it wasn't on his watch. but the american people want to see some humility. >> right. >> they want to see some humility, and there's two issues here. the american people are not only upset about the irs situation because it touches every american. they're sick of nonaccountability overall. we see things happen in the federal government. no one has really been fired or held accountable. on the second issue, it's about trust. you can't trust the irs, which is the agency that touches everyone's lives. does the most power to impact, go into your bank account, take your money if you can't pay your taxes. if you can't trust the irs, how are you going to trust the rest of the government. >> they forget the context in which these -- these are not
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just these rabid lawmakers. there's been a history of misrepresentation to the american people and to them. >> they had steven miller who was then the tax chief, testify before them weeks before the scandal broke, and he told them, there is no targeting going on. it was so clear, his testimony that they called him back, once the scandal became public and they learned there was targeting, and they had this exchange. they asked, why did you say that? >> i did not mislead the committee, i stand by my answer then, i stand by my answer now. harassment, discussion that was part of that implies political motivation. there is a discussion going on. there's no political motivation. >> it's like -- as much as the american people hate congress. you have to pardon them for their skepticism in this case. >> right, and we're talking about his words and what he's told everyone, but let's not forget, that this was not only targeting for political reasons, this also goes outside the scope
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of the irs which is why we're looking at these e-mails in a skeptical way. they have all the e-mails that were sent to irs officials inside the irs. the ones that are missing are going to the white house and the department of justice. let's not forget it was lois lerner inside the irs who was working with her buddies at sec who are e-mailing her saying, maybe we should look at criminal cases for these tea party groups much this is not only about the irs, but people inside the irs working with other political operatives to develop a case to silence and chill people's first amendment rights. >> how did we learn about that? in the e-mails that were produced. >> exactly. we've got breaking news out of oklahoma, where republican james langford just won the nomination to run for senate. he defeated his opponent who recently saw support from figures like sarah palin and ted cruz. we'll have more on that after
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ask if xeljanz is right for you. fox news alert, tomorrow's big story is breaking tonight. this mississippi race is getting tighter as we get new results. with a little more than 50% of the vote in now. thad cochran's lead has shrunk to about 5%. brett baer is with us.f it? >> the turnout here is higher than people thought going in. this is a special runoff, between chris mcdonnell and thad cochran. thad cochran tried to paint chris mcdonnell as an extremist, saying mississippi can't afford chris mcdaniel andt is interesting to see the turnout so far. we have a long way to go, 47% of the vote still out there as the
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ap is counting this, and it's going to be a race i think that may go down to the wire. in oklahoma, by the way, megan, the langford campaign was surprised at how quick this came to a result, and he is going to get past the 50%, and won't have to have a runoff against t.w. shannon. the former oklahoma house speaker. it looks like lankford has pulled it off. >> despite support from players like sarah palin. thank you, sir. >> thank you. over the course of a couple hours, we saw a dramatic parade of senators speaking of the growing threat of the terror group building. some of those senators challenging the president to do something and fast. joining me now, robert zimmerman, a democratic strategist who worked with the clintons. i want to start with this. the president -- we just left off with ollie north about whether the president has failed to lead here. the latest polls for him on this
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are not good, pete. the president came out a week -- less than a week ago, and tried to doe nigh the thing he has been taking credit for for years now, which is that he is the one responsible for pulling the troops out of iraq. here he is once again answering a question from cnn. >> you wish you had left a residual force in iraq? any regrets about that decision in 2011? >> well, keep in mind that wasn't the decision made by me, that was a decision made by the iraqi government. >> if that's true, why did he say this in a presidential debate he had with mitt romney when romney was challenging him on the subject of iraq? >> with regards to iraq, you and i agreed i believe, that there should have been a status of forces agreement. >> that's not true. >> you didn't want a status of forces agreement? >> no, i would not have left 10,000 troops in iraq that would tie us down. that certainly wouldn't help us in the middle east. >> the president said at that
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moment, what was politically exceed yen the. he knew the elector ant wasn't for the iraq war, he said at that moment, i don't want to be there, i don't want to get tied down in iraq. ending the war was popular in 2012. >> he said -- >> hold on. >> we had the leverage at that moment, if we wanted to sign it. >> what he said in that debate was true, he didn't want to be there, he didn't want to be tied down to the middle east. >> what he said today -- >> we still don't want to be tied down in the middle east. and putting 10,000 forces there wouldn't change any dynamic. >> why didn't he say that. when he was at cnn last week, when the stuff hit the fan, why didn't he say, i stand by my decision, i did pull us out of the middle east, because i didn't want to get tied down there? >> because any agreement with the maliki government would have been impossible to achieve.
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they weren't going to give our troops protection. >> you're not answering my question. >> i -- when i hear an answer, i need to feel the water run over the brain, like the answer is coming, and i'm not feeling it. the question is, if he stands by the fact that it was -- it was barack obama who got the troops out of iraq, as he represented in the presidential debate, why didn't he just turn to cnn on thursday and say, i have no qualms before what i did, i got us out of iraq. and i did it because i didn't want us to be tied down in the middle east. and i stand by me -- >> this is a difference moment. we're talking about a foreign policy. >> lay it on me. >> here's the deal, keeping our 10,000 troops in iraq, supporting a government that's a stooge for iran, is not going to achieve any sort of stability or unite that country. if we achieve the status of forces agreement, no matter what the number of troops, they were opposed to it, that wasn't
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because. >> they want us to go higher. >> excuse me, they are accepting 300 advisers. >> all hell has broken loose now. >> they wanted a substantial force to -- they were unth to come to -- we were unwilling to -- >> let him finish. >> i let you finish, i would appreciate the opportunity. >> every general involved in this discussion understood a substantial amount of troops is what was necessary to ensure the iraqi army was capable and provide the political space for a young maliki government to do what is right. when we got rid of military level leverage we got rid of political leverage, that has president obama to blame. >> he spent 20 years in exile between iran and syria. he's always been a zip el of the iranian government. for you to say for the moment that maliki was anything but answering iran's directives --
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>> before we go, i want to ask you this. why did the president tell us that this terror group was j.v. in january of this year? >> megyn let's be serious now. in january, this was a total of -- and right now, 4,000 forces against the iraqi army of 200,000. >> they had captured fallujah. >> there's no question they grew between january to be a major force. >> in january they captured fallujah. the president -- >> the iraqi army stepped up and did the job that we spent $20 billion training them to, this force of 4,000 would be irrelevant. they're becoming increasingly important because the iraqi government stepped down. >> he said they were j.v. in january, and now he's saying -- >> no, what i'm saying, don't put words in my mouth. they've always been a vile, hateful terrorist group. they could have been stopped if the iraqis did their job. >> he didn't say they were vile.
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he described them as j.v. >> the president didn't care, he never cared about the outcome in iraq -- >> you're accusing the president of treason? that's your answer to me? >> i'm not -- >> when you say he doesn't care about our soldiers. >> i didn't say he didn't care about the soldiers, he didn't care about the outcome. >> outcome can only be -- >> he doesn't care about the problem. >> the outcome can only be achieved when the iraqi government comes together. we will never have a successful outcome in iraq, as long as we have -- >> we have to go. it feels like cool water rushing over your brain on a hot summer day. guys, good to see you. we could have a winner any moment now, these tight races in mississippi and possibly colorado, we're getting dramatic news about charlie rangel, the new numbers and what they mean just moments away. a dramatic and dangerous twist in the efforts to save a
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woman to death for being a christian. toni perkins was here last night stating, just because she had been released from jail, she was not safe. unfortunately, that's true.
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breaking tonight, polls closing just moments ago in new york, where we're getting some very early results in. look at this, charlie rangel fights for a 23rd term, with just 2% of the jurisdictions reporting here, we have 24% for charlie rangel, 73% for his challenger in a district that has changed pretty significantly from what it used to be, now with 73% of the vote. also in mississippi, a little more than 65% of the vote in and thad cochran's lead is present but tight. what does this mean? >> it means this is a barn burner of a mississippi
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election. it means it's an awesome election night. it means that chris mcdaniel could still put this win together. the counties where he needs to perform well he is outperforming, cochran is hanging in there. he rolled up big numbers in the early counties that came in. he's holding the line where he needs to, mcdaniel is killing it with his base and the very conservative precincts. the tea party is alive, but the number of votes is running out. >> quickly, before i let you go, rangel, is it completely meaningless with 2% in? >> it's completely meaningless, but that's never stopped us before. >> joining me now, laura ingram, who is a chris mcdaniel supporter in mississippi. what do you make of these numbers so far. is it tighter than you expected it to be in mississippi? >> no, not really. haley barbour is from the most maherful family in mississippi politics. haley barbour is probably the
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most powerful influential lobbyist in the united states. he made sure after that first election go-round. they were going to put together as much momentum for thad cochran. he was first elected in 1978 during the carter administration. >> i thought it was 36 years ago. >> 1971. i don't know. >> '72, i guess it is. i was one year old. >> megan, what barber did, he -- and this has all been discussed. he put together -- a late coalition of liberal democrats to turn out for cochran. they know cochran is a big spender, and if he can bring money back to the state, he'll do it. importantly, we'll see black liberal democrats in mississippi. ricky cole came on my radio show a few days ago, he said, i see walking around money being dolled out on the streets here.
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he was dismayed about this. he said, look, democrats should vote in democratic primaries, republicans should vote in republican primaries. look, when the establishment has as much on the line as they do in mississippi, they're going to pull out all the stops and beating an establishment candidate, who's been in there for 36 years, someone like him is going to be difficult to do, it's always difficult to beat the establishment, ronald reagan did that, chris mcdaniel, i think he has a really good showing so far, if he can make up the gap, this will be a big story. he made cochran spend millions of dollars and put together a coalition with liberal democrats in order to put them over the top. >> you can see the numbers are getting tighter as more and more precincts report and we'll stay on it as we await final results. laura, we'll stay with you. we reported that a sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for her christian faith had her sentence overturned. up next, what happened when the newly freed woman and her family
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one day after a young mother was freed from death row, where she had been sent for refusing to renounce her christian faith, she was rearrested at the airport in sudan as she was trying to fly to america. we have late breaking news on where she is and what her status is tonight. tony perkins has begun in contact with lawmakers over this all day, joins us now. what do we know? >> well, megan as you reported this morning, she tried to leave with her two children and husband who was in a wheelchair. they were stopped at the airport by 40 national intelligence and security officials who -- i mean these guys are not your average
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tsa agents, they're hardliners, there's some concern that there is pushback against the hardline element to the sudanese government, the fact that the court overturned her death sentence. >> the group that arrested her claims she had falsified papers. they called the group agents of fear, and obviously, you have concerns about miriam's safety tonight? >> yeah, she was charged with false fiction of documents. she apparently had a south sudanese passport and a u.s. visa to leave the country with. they say those documents were false. now, we're told, and i'm meeting tomorrow with the sudanese ambassador, that they're going to work this out, that she should still be on her way within the next couple days, here's the problem. as long as she is in sudan, she's not safe. there are those that are calling for her to be killed according to sharia law.
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because she left the islamic faith. the united states government, the obama administration, secretary kerry need to speak out very clearly and very forcefully, that as long as the sudanese government is blocking her exit of that country, they will be held responsible for her safety and well being. >> you said it last night, that you had fears about her safety, and sure enough, she gets reawrested. tony, we'll continue to follow it, thanks for being here, and we'll be right back. proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. but we're not in the business of naming names. the volkswagen passat is heads above the competition, the fact is, it comes standard with an engine that's been called the benchmark of its class.
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♪ >> there really are no words, so i won't try any. >> i'm megyn kelly, this is the kelly file, here's hannity. welcome to hannity, this is a fox news alert, the irs scandal continues to inch closer to the white house as there are new calls for a special prosecutor to be named in this case, and in iraq, violence continues to escalate, and a senior intelligence official is telling fox news tonight, that isis has as fishation and intent to target u.s. interests in a moment. dick cheney will join us for an instudio interview. eight states held different contests today. all eyes were focused on two of the biggest races, oklahoma and mississippi. we turn to brett baer in