much for being lear with us. good night from nbc headquarters here in new york. >> all right. well, the federal criminal trial of the president's campaign chair is going to go to the jury tomorrow. the defense and the prosecution have rested their respective sides of the case, closing arguments will be tomorrow. the judge in this case likes to keep the closing arguments from both sighs sides to one single day in the room. because of that we have every reason to believe the prosecution will start their closing arguments on time and it will go an hour and a half to two hours depending on how long the prosecutor is able to convince the judge that he should be allowed to go on. then after the prosecution, there will be the closing argument from the defense and then the jury will get it. of course there is absolutely no way to tell how long the jury will deliberate on paul

manafort's fate. if the president's campaign chairman, paul manafort, is convicted, we should keep in mind that that would probably mean that this particular criminal case against manafort would keep going. paul manafort of course would have the right to appeal if he is convicted. also, and i think it's now increasingly important to start keeping this in mind just as a national matter the rule of law because of the nature of this case, because of hoff paul manafort is, because of who he was on the trump campaign, it is also possible that at any point in the process from here on out, the process from here on out, the president himself could decide to intervene in this case could decide he is going to issue paul manafort a pardon. if that happens, that's the only eventuality that might happen next in this case that could

affect the next federal criminal trial against trump campaign chairman paul manafort. if he's pardoned by the president which could happen at any moment, all bets are off in terms of what happens. provided he is not pardoned, whether paul manafort is acquitted or convicted by the jury that will deliberate his fate tomorrow, he is due to start a second criminal felony trial in washington, d.c. in just a few weeks. that's next month. that next trial will be before a different judge in a different courthouse in a different place with a dumpb jury and may even have some different lawyers arguing on one or both sides. now we are coming to the end of the first trial. we are looking ahead towards that second trial. it is striking that prosecutors from robert mueller's office, the special counsel's office, they have steered this first manafort case to be much more about the trump campaign than we thought it was going to be at the outset. that may affect the president's

thinking about whether or not he wants to intervene to spring paul manafort by pardoning him. this first criminal trial in the eastern district of virginia had its last witnesses on the stand related to something having to do with the trump campaign and they had their last motions argued in court today related to something having to do with the trump campaign and the last batch of physical evidence the prosecution introduced in court was again about this one part of the manafort case in virginia that is related to the trump for president campaign. we knew at the outset of manafort's trial there might it be some thepgs of this stuff during the manafort trial. we doesn't know this was where it was going to end up. the first piece we got to see is when trump deputy campaign chair rick gates was on the stand as a witness against paul manafort. prosecutors introduced this e-mail from paul manafort to

rick gates from november 24, 2016 right after the election. in that e-mail, trfrt says to rick gate, rick, we need to discuss steve calk for secretary of the bank. paul, steve cauk was the bank ceo whose little bank in chicago gave giant loans to paul manafort between election day and inauguration day. we learned during the course of manafort's trial that those loans were actually the biggest loans forever made by this little bank and the bank has apparently lost nearly 12 million on those loans thus far. steve calk reportedly overruled overt objections from other people who worked at the bank opposed to giving manafort these loans but calk was the bank ceo and major shareholder and he intervened personally to make sure manafort would get account money.

that game up while gates was on the stand. he was saying we have to consider this guy for secretary of the army. now we've got this. this is also from the trial. more evidence introduced by the prosecution. this is another e-mail exchange involving paul manafort. it's also right after the election. a few days after the e-mail to rick gates. november 30th, 2016. and this piece of evidence showses that manafort sent on to jared kushner during the presidential transition his recommendation that steve calk, this little bank ceo from chicago, should be considered for secretary of the army or for any one of several other high profile or cabinet level jobs in the new administration. so manafort sends over to kushner that recommendation about this bank ceo at 3:00 in the afternoon on wednesday november 30th. that night by dinnertime jared kushner sends back his response, two words, "on it!" it's not every day you get concrete black and white

evidence that a successful presidential campaign was doling out senior job prospects for the new administration to people who literally gave millions of dollars in cash to the campaign chairman. this is a historic moment for us as americans. it's nice to be here with you for this moment. remember where you were when you learned -- but there's a few consequences from this evidence that prosecutors introduced and that we expect they may walk the jury through. in their closing argues tomorrow. first of all, there is the question of whether there is going to be any criminal liability specifically associated with this scheme. there was a bench conference between the lawyers and the judge on friday in which prosecutors describe this bank ceo as a "co-conspirator." prosecutors described him as having some other kind of criminal liability that they didn't elaborate on. but that bank ceo has been an

unusual absence in the courtroom, right? there's been a lot of detail, a lot of evidence introduced in this case about the trump campaign apparently trying to sell off high ranking job offers but steve calk himself has not appeared as a witness in the courtroom. all these e-mails and discussions are related to him but he hasn't been there. among other things that might imply he hasn't made a deal with prosecutors that might have resulted in immunity for his own prosecution in exchange for his testimony at least in the manafort case. so that's one big question mark here. one thing that remains to be explained about this part of what was exposed in the manafort case. secondly, there's also the question as to how you this all relates to the overall criminal charges that paul manafort is facing that the jury is going to start deliberating tomorrow. today was the day when paul manafort's defense team tried to make sort of a virtue out of this scheme for paul manafort. some of this happened in open

court today. i will read to you a piece from the court transcript today where the judge basically throws a lightning bolt in the courtroom at that argument. but beak what manafort's lawyers tried to do do end of this case was tried to argue to the court this bank ceo wan aid trump administration job so badly he would have approved any loan from his bank for paul manafort to matter how big a loan it was and no matter how ridiculous the paperwork that manafort submitted to supposedly apply for the loan. no matter what manafort had asked for this guy was going to give it to him because he wanted that job. that's the argument being made by manafort's defense. basically arguing that the bribery scheme selling high profile job offers in the federal government was so effective it rendered the bank fraud moot so we're good. yeah, paul manafort sort of

broke into the bank vault but the bank president would have opened the door for him and let him take whatever he waned. dude thought he was going to be secretary of the army. he would get to run the whole army. that was the defense argument. so you'll see how that worked out in court today in a second. i've got that bit from the transcript. but there is i think one last big consequence of this for us just as americans watching this dramatic trial unfold involving the president's campaign chair. while that president is still in office. it's not necessarily about the exact charges that manafort might face. it's not about the exact tactics his defense team is trying. he's the bigger question of us as a country and as citizens in our government. this weird turn in the manafort trial has shone this interesting light what grounds the trump administration considered people for high ranking positions in the federal government when they

were setting up the new administration. this is a live issue for us as a country in a lot of different banz the president today started publicly deriding as a "dog" and as a crazed low life his former white house senior adviser omarosa manigault-newman. it's this interesting sfek spec tagle for the president to be talking her the way he is. in those attacks, the president implicitly raises very serious concerns about who gets into the white house, right? about his own ability, his own -- his administration's own ability to hire people for senior jobs in the federal government including the white house. when the president calls his former senior white house adviser a crazed low life today, it's as if he has no idea how that crazed low life got hired into the white house to be his senior white house adviser in the first place. yeah, who hired her, big guy?

i mean to, that same point, how exactly did this bank ceo from this bank in chicago get to the point where jared kushner was "on it" to see that he was considered to be secretary of the u.s. army? we talked a little bit about the prosecution's evidence on that point last night. prosecutors submitted this had item into evidence, document number 452. in which the bank's ceo steve calk gave manafort what apted to his job obligation to join the fru trump organization, his full list of all the jobs he wanted to be considered for in the trump administration. the list of jobs he wanted to be considered for was titled "perspective roles in the trump administration," not prospective but perspective, not roles as in jobs, but rolls r-o-l-l-s like dinner rolls or somersaults.

perspective rolls. reading through this again today mar verying at the jobs steve calk thought he would be up for, deputy secretary of defense, secretary of the army, these are the jobs he thought he would be up for because he gave paul manafort a lot of money. what striblgs but the fact that manafort the former campaign chair was selling this guy and in fact had installed this guy on a formal economic advisory commission advising trump and he was telling rick gays who was working for the trump transition and naug tlags this guy needed to be considered for the running the army and he was stove piping this recommendation to jared kushner and he was on it, what strikes you when you look at the way this guy represented himself as interested in all these jobs and qualified for all these jobs is that it's sort of nuts to think this guy would have been remotely considered to be qualified for or considered for any of these jobs. beyond just the misspellings at

the top of the page, you just i mean, mr. calk's competence, character, commitment and loyalty mark him as someone who will uniquely be in the roll, r-o-l-l, the somersault of the secretary of the army for the trump administration to great effect. what? mr. calk has developed his expertise in a variety of cutting edge frameworks associated with strategic and innovation planning and implementation. excuse me? mr. calk possesses a deep reservoir of competence. he has verifiable acumen. his financial acumen -- somebody looked up a new word, financial acumen, academic proficiency and national reputation is without equal in the area of financial management, budgeting analysis, and planning.

i'm sure there's nobody equal in national reputation when it comes to budgeting and financial management, nobody equal in terms of their national reputation to this guy who runs this tine bank in chicago that gave gigantic cash loans to paul manafort between the election and inauguration loans that didn't get paid back. he is without peer in terms of his national reputation for budgeting. what? it's nuts, right? but something about his interactions with paul manafort and trump team made him think he had this job in the bag. the "wall street journal" has recovered after the inauguration, steve calk called the pentagon and asked 0 speak to people at the army about what he needed to know to get up to speed for his new job. we also now know from this new evidence introduced by prosecutors apparently he was not only prepared to take up this job himself and looking to the army to start his briefings because he figured he would be secretary of the army, he was also offering other jobs to

other people who he thought he would bring on to work for him. "mr. calk himself says talking about himself in the third person "he has already identified highly experienced candidates for all key positions report together secretary of the army and can have that team on boarded within 30 days of confirmation." all on boarded. this is your guy. look at the title of this thing, look at the title. the title is literally, "qualification memorandum on behalf of steven calk articulating his qualifications." quality i'm sure. so again, there's there is lit of perspective rolls, all the jobs he wants innocent rank order in the trump administration. elsewhere in the document he misspells the word rol role in the same way again. he gets the word correct.

see the first word in the paragraph there. he misspells the word role in the document. then he gets it correct. weirdly this whole paragraph in his resume qualifications, this whole paragraph is cogent. the only paragraph that is cogent. that sounds like it wasn't reverse translated by machine from a couple other languages. because this is one paragraph stands out as the only normal paragraph in his application to be secretary of the army, we googled this paragraph and it turns out this part of steve calk's qualification memorandum was just copied directly word for word from wikipedia which is why it makes sense as opposed to everything else he wrote. just cut and pasted from the role and responsibilities, r-o-l-e. there's the paragraph from steve

calk on top which is exactly the same. we posted them on the screen in case you want to clip and save that and post it on your refrigerator as a reminder how exactly the trump administration was on it considering people for jobs like running the u.s. army when the only time they made sense and stopped misspelling even very basic single syllable words was when they were copying and pasting directly from wikipedia like freshmen. actually freshmen are nice. they don't deserve that, i'm sorry. it's before you get in trouble and you realize you can't do that, you'll get caught. so as the manafort case goes to the jury, the big question is how the jury will decide manafort's fate. but there are other mysteries this case opened along the way. there are still elements of this case under seal. the judge held a closed hearing with without any spectators is allowed in the courtroom yesterday afternoon and two hours this morning. we very no idea why that portion

of the trial has been sealed. informed speculation from people who know how the trials tend to go suggested there might be an issue that the defense raised about something going wrong with the jury. after manafort's defense team rested without calling any witnesses the defense team gave a short statement to the press. one of manafort's defense lawyers said "mr. manafort just rested his case because they believe the government has not met its burden of proof." basically just a short statement from the lawyer saying here's what you should read into the fact we didn't call any witne witnesses up to the stand. after he made that statement, reporters chased the defense lawyer once he walked away to try to ask him follow-up questions including one from nbc's julia ansley that did not get a response. this is a reporter's audio recording of that exchange. listen. >> what do you say to to those who say this makes your client

look guilty? >> we live in the united states of america. you're presumed innocent until proven guilty. >> is there a problem with the jury in this case? >> are you confident going into closing argues tomorrow? >> we are very confident. thank you. >> so three clear questions there. he answered the first one, skips the second one and answers the third one. the one he skipped is from julia ansley. mr. downing, is there a problem with the jury in this case? paul manafort's defense lawyer paused looked right at julia ansley and kept looking at her and said nothing in response. so whether there's something going on with the jury, whether that's the defense's contention that there's something wrong with the jury, we don't yet know. we will apparently find out sooner rather than later. the judge said in open court all of those motions and all of those transcripts of these closed hearings will be unsealed when the trial ends.

so we will eventually find out. as i mentioned though, manafort's defense lawyer basically tried to explain to reporters it today why no witnesses were called to stand up for paul manafort on the defense side of the case. in court today, that included a certain lengthy at least a description of why paul manafort wasn't standing up to testify as a witness in his own defense. here's how that went in court today. the judge, now we turn to the fact that the government has rested and now it is my obligation to ask the defendant, mr. downing, does the defendant wish to offer any evidence? mr. downing, the defendant rests are your honor. the judge, now the defendant is not required to present evidence. all of this is being done out of the hearing of the jury. i do have to question the defendant to ensure it is his decision he does not wish to testify. does he wish to testify? >> mr. downing. he does not. >> the judge, mr. manafort would you come to the podium please?

i need to confirm you understand you have an absolute right to testify before the jury and have a right to the remain silent before this jury. if you remain silent, the court will instruct the jury they may draw no inference from your silence. il instruct the jury that the jury cannot even discuss the fact that you have not testified because your right to remain silent is absolute under the constitution and you may not be penalized for exercising that right." now i'll end by saying again, do you have the right to testify. have you discussed this matter with your counsel? paul manafort. i have, your honor. >> the judge, and are you fully satisfied with the advice and counsel you have received from your lawyers? >> paul manafort, i am your honor. >> the judge, have you decided whether you wish to testify? >> paul manafort. i have decided. >> the judge, do you wish to testify? >> paul manafort. no, sir. >> you may be seated. >> paul manafort. thank you. >> the judge says all right.

that brings us end of the evidence in this case. that's the end of the evidence. all the evidence is in. there's not going to be any more witnesses. none for the prosecution and none for the defense, including the defendant himself. i mentioned the defense made one last effort related to the trump campaign to this guy who wanted to be secretary of the army and apparently thought he would be and was hiring up to get ready to take the job. last night paul manafort's defense team file aid last minute motion to acquit, a ha ditch move to try to get the judge to whoa out the whole case instead of letting jury decide his fate. in particular in this motion to acquit, they singled out all this stuff with this bank ceo from the little bank in chicago as part of the strongest part of their argument that manafort should be acquitted and it shouldn't go to the jury. here's how that went today in open court. judge, "all right, i'll hear argument now on the rule 29 motion on which i've received

briefs from both sides. you should have that this mind in your argument." >> manafort's defense lawyer. urn hur hurn, we made a motion to dismiss but specifically briefed the counts in the indictment that reit to the lending arrangements entered into with the federal savings bank. we've highlighted that because we think the evidence at this point has not demonstrated that any statements made to the bank were material to its decision to lend. and that is an element of the offense that the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt. this is the defense saying yeah, paul manafort may have given bad information to the bank as part of the process to get those loans but that didn't matter. he was going to get those loans anyway. he was offering this dude amazing jobs in the trump administration exin exchange for the money. so doesn't matter what fraudulent information he tried to pass off on the bank. so the defense offers that in court today today. they argue back and forth for some time.

then the judge says "all right. i have reviewed that. in the end, i think the defendant makes a significant argument about materiality but in the end i think materiality is an issue for the jury. they going to decide whether it was material. it's a jury issue. that's true for all the other counts, not just the counts we're discussing which is the bank but the other counts beyond, the tax counts and everything else are all jury issues. they the jury will be instructed and they will have to make a determination. so the motion for judgment of acquittal pursuant to rule 29 is denied." now at this point, i think probably what happened is reporters got up and ran out of the courtroom to go file their stories. he's not going to be acquitted. it's going to go to the jury because the next line in the transcript is the judge saying, we have this bit. the judge says next line, now, let me confirm that the, then

there's an pl dash. then he says anyone else need to leave the courtroom? and the response in the room according to court transcription is laughter. so last ditch effort to acquit paul manafort on all charges before the whole thing went to the jury failed rejected in total. the effort to make it a good thing that paul mst was bribing the bank ceo with trump administration job offers appears to have not gone over with the judge either. but as of tomorrow, we have closing arguments and then wait on a verdict. we'll be looking to clean up all the other stuff that came up over the course of this trial. what was sealed that may or may not have had something to do with the jury or rick gates and his involvement in other active ongoing cases being investigated by robert mueller? any potential criminal liability or other repercussions related to the evidence that the trump campaign tried to sell cabinet

seats and pentagon positions in the new administration in exchange for cash? jared kushner says he was on it. did he know what it really was? and there are more loose ends here in terms of stuff that was opened up during this trial including a big one exposed today by the "associated press." we have more on that coming up tonight. stay with us. here's a trip tip: when you search hotels on tripadvisor... enter your destination and the dates of your stay. tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites...

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here's the big fight and the awkward moment at the end. what they're fighting about is the instructions to the jury and this particular fight is about things the judge has said during the course of the trial, stuff he said in front of the jury, either comments about the case that he made in front of the jury or questions that the judge made himself to various witnesses. so they're fighting about that. the judge, you want it eliminated? the prosecutor, well, want it revised and we're. >> you're giving me a brief now? >> mr. asonye but urn it's attached at the back.

>> did you submit this brief prior to today. >> mr. saonye, no, we have not but we think this proposed instruction is a more adequate statement of fourth circuit law on the court's comments of questioning of witnesses. >> the judge, well it leaves out the fact that the law of the united states permits a federal judge to comment to the jury on the evidence in the case. that's still the law of the land. but in any event, i don't care that much. and what's your objection to this one? the only thing it leaves out is that i have the right as the judge to excellent on the evidence. >> then the judge says well, i'll tell you another reason i don't like it, mr. asonye? the diction is wrong. you were express lis to understand at least it didn't split the infinitive. that's not the way i or anyone speaks. >> mr. asonye, i'm sure your honor will say it however you

feel. >> suppose i change number 11 to say such comments permits a federal judge to comment to the jury on the evidence in the case. do you think i made any such comments? and then the transcript reflects laughter. judge says, do you think i made any such comments? the prosecutor he's having with the back and forth here doesn't respond. he just stands there and there's awkward laughter in the courtroom. from another part of the courtroom from the prosecutor's table, the other prosecutor waits a beat and stands up and speaks from the back of the courtroom. it's greg andres. he says to the judge, yes, your honor, yes, you did. which prompts more laughter in the courtroom. >> the judge says do you remember one. >> he says yes, i can remember several. whether he mr. gate testified he testified mr. manafort was very careful about his money and your honor said obviously not when you stole money from him. that was one that was particularly noteworthy. but there are others, your

honor. to which the judge says, that really hurt the government, didn't it? mr. andres says well, i. >> the judge says, never mind. never mind. then the transcript reflects a pause in the proceedings. the judge is like, have you ever done that? the one prosecutor goes gulp. the other one in the back goes yeah, your honor, you did. >> whether he. >> oh, that really hurt you? >> there's been all there will wringing of hands and legal fighting over this judge in the manafort case inserting himself in dramatic fashion into the trial. that devolved today in the final day of wrangling before the case goes to the jury tomorrow devolved into the judge i think having a sort of sarcastic outburst this never mind, never mind outburst at the prosecutors today. at least that's how it reads. was it like that exactly in person? joining us is josh gerstein, senior reporter at politico in

the courtroom for the entire trial and was there for this today. thank you very much for being here. it's nice to see you. so that was the way the transcript read in part about there fight with the judge. they're fighting about the instructions that are going to be given to the jury and specifically how the jury should consider things that the judge might have piped up about himself during the trial? >> right, and you're quite right to detect it's sometimes hard in the transcript, there was a lot of sarcasm going back and forth. both sides, i mean not the prosecution and defense but the prosecution and the judge are laying it out there. just seemed like they have either lost patience with each other or at this point the trial is close enough to being over that there's not much point in censoring yourself at this juncture. >> as this is ending with unexpected fireworks like that which is sort of the way it started, as well, i feel like there are some dangling mysteries that i think we will

ultimately get some answers to, right? there's been some closed hearings. there's been some sealed conferences at the bench where lawyers and the judge all talked amongst themselves with the white noise machine playing so spectators couldn't hear it. something still needs to be unresolved. a lot of people are speculating it might have something to do with the jury. there was definitely a sealed conversation having to do with rick gates offering evidence that might be used by the special counsel in other cases. what do you feel like of all of these things raised, these sort of mysteries raised during the trial, should we very an expectation they'll get cleared up and we'll know what all these things were? >> the judge was clear that that information will come out. it's not clear if he means the moment there's a verdict or perhaps later on in the legal process. the secrecy over last few days has been striking and unusual. that court in particular has that reputation as the rocket docket. it has seemed at least to us

obbers who can only see the public portion of the trial that the rocket sort of went off course or petered out over the last few days because things were not progressing nearly as quickly as they normally do. i agree with the other folks you were quoting earlier referring to who said it did seem like there's some issue related to the jury. there was movement to and from the jury room. it seems like the defense is trying to preserve some objection for appeal. perhaps the judge refused to dismiss a juror who might have potentially shown some bias and the judge wants to be on the record making clear they're objecting strenuously so if it is an issue on the appeal they can present it to the fourth circuit r circuit, the appeals court that takes this up. >> josh, as someone who is a astute ob ver of proceedings like this this is the president's campaign chairman. we know he's about to start

another criminal trial once this one is done. there's been a lot of news attention and discussion by the judge in the courthouse whether or not paul manafort might factor into larger investigations involving the president himself. as you have watched this unfold, have you seen anything that's given you any indication of how we should think about the prospect of a presidential pardon here or some other effort by the president to intervene some way in paul manafort's fate? >> i think there was enough evidence about the trump campaign and now as of last night about the first family with this reference to jared kushner being drawn into the effort to try to get steve calk a job in the army secretary position. that will any mention of the campaign or the first family or the white house i think starts tore push buttons over there at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. and even the decision by the defense not to really mount eight defense that includes evidence or witnesses and just

to go with some general strategy which may be to blame there all on rick gates suggests they don't want to get down in the weeds here and really get dirty and that maybe they think somebody is going to swoop in and save them. there's only one person i can there of who can do that. >> josh gerstein. appreciate your time tonight. thanks, josh. much more to get to tonight including this being election night in four states. stay with us. ♪

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as the jury gets paul manafort case tomorrow and we watch the closing arguments tomorrow and start to wait on the jury to hand in their verdict, i mentioned that there are a few other things that have been raised in the trial, many for the first time that were left to wonder if and how they'll get tied up now that they've been described in open court. one of those is highlighted today by the "associated press" in a story that has a remarkable lead. ready? from the a.p. today, jeff who are rewitz, donald trump's inaugural committee pushed back hard last summer on questions whether the unprecedented $107 million budget for the trump inauguration was fraughting with cost overruns and misspending. a top official assured the a. p. last summer that spending had been both restrained and monitored. well, in court last week, that same official rick gates acknowledged that he personally

may have pocketed some of the inaugural committee's money. gates admitted to manafort's lawyers in open court that he "possibly wrongfully submitted personal expenses to the inaugural committee for reimbursement. though only a footnote to his disclosures where affairs and embezzlement, it the raises questions how well the committee tracked its own spending. it's not clear whether gates testimony will prompt the committee to review spend package when paul manafort left the trump campaign, his deputy rick gates stayed on. gates stayed on through the duration of the campaign for the transition and was a senior official on trump inauguration which was wildly mismatched in terms of the amount of money they raised and the amount of money they appear to have spent. what happened to some of that money? rick gates said he might have stolen some of it. who follows this up? shouldn't the nug ral committee

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learn more at theexplorercard.com happy tuesday. it is primary night tonight. we're watching returns roll in from four states. for the latest, steve kornacki. >> rachel, yeah, another big primary night. headlines for you. let's start with the biggest headline. there was a surprise tonight. it was in minnesota. tim pawlenty it, form other two-term governor of minnesota, former presidential candidate in 2012, he said he banned to make a comeback bid this year to get his old job as governor back. he is not going to get that job back because he has lost the republican primary for governor of minnesota tonight. tim pawlenty losing hanleyly, nearly ten points to jeff johnson. who is jeff johnson in the republican nominee for governor four years ago in 2014.

that was a very good year for republicans nationally. johnson lost that race by six points. he decided to run again. he has defeated tim pawlenty. this the upset of the night. a fascinating race in terms of what it tells us where the republican party is. back in 2016, when donald trump was running for president tim pawlenty called him unhinged and unqualified. jeff johnson said of trump back then, something i can't say on television i'm pretty sure. when they campaigned against each other in this primary in 2018, they both debated over who meant what they said new 201 less. jeff johnson tried to get to the right of pawlenty. who he face in the general election? congressman tim walz from the southern part of the minnesota has won the democratic nomination for governor in this state tonight. defeating his opponents. an interesting race in the sense there was some doubt about walz,

could win a democratic primary with his voting record particularly on gun issues coming from that more conservative rural district but walz is able to win so it will be walz versus jeff johnson in the general election. another big name, keith ellison, co-chair of the democratic national committee. congressman giving up that house seat to run for attorney general and in the last couple days, accusations of domestic violence. what happened in the primary? keith ellison wonton happened lili. he is now the democratic nominee for attorney general in minnesota. however, this afternoon, as the voting was taking play, the democratic national complete announced it is looking into the accusations. this very much an open question. a cloud over ellison has he heads into the national election. next door in wisconsin, a couple primaries to tell you about there. number one, this was paul ryan's district. paul ryan leaving it in a few

months. his former aide brian steyer will be the republican number facing off against randy bryce. had a viral video attracting millions of views. bryce revelations of past arrests in the final weeks of the primary campaign. you can see took some toll. he will be the democratic candidate. there is a district, one of those republican history clerks trump won it by ten, romney won it by four with ryan on the ticket. democrats think if they have got a wave, this is a district they think they might be able to flip. also in wisconsin, the senate race out there, tami bad win, democrat, one of those democrats running in a state trump won. tommy baldwin found out her opponent tonight, leah vukmir won in wisconsin tonight.

she will take on tammy baldwin. the good news for baldwin is the polls so far against vukmir have put baldwin up daughter digits. vukmir very much the underdog heading into there general election. phenol here's a name everybody knows. bernie sanders, he was on the ballot tonight in vermont. the democratic primary ballot for the u.s. senate, this is an interesting story. let's see if we can get to it here. there it is. no surprise bernie sanders wins the primary easily. here's the interesting thing. bernie sanders he identifies as an independent. he caucuses with democrats. he says he's going to reject this nomination, the democratic nomination. he wins it tonight. he says thanks but no thanks, democrats. i'm going to run as an independent. you're welcome to support me. i thank you for your support in this primary. he told voters he planned to do it and democratic votes in vermont tonight overwhelmingly, this is not a well-known

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when kansas's very controversial governor sam brownbeck left office to take a job in the trump administration that, elevated his lieutenant governor jeff colyer to the governor's seat. last week he had a primary to hold onto the seat. it was too close to call.

it's been an ugly week of fighting about that all week long. tonight, jeff colyer unexpectedly conceded. msnbc's steve kornacki is still with us. i was prized this happened tonight. it seemed like it was still too close to call. this has big implications. >> this is the outcome democrats were hoping for. they think this gives them a shot at winning the governorish. they think if kobaching is the face of the party nationally, there will be a backlash against that. kobach now as the republican nominee squares off against laura kelly. there are suburbs right around kansas city, johnson county, kansas in particular a quarter of all votes in the giant state of kansas will come out of this one county, bedroom community right outside kc. traditional republican voters say those voters would be unnerved by kobach.

there is polling evidence to back up that theory. a poll tested two different republican nominees colyer and kobach against kelly. check this out. here's what it found. colyer the incumbent governor was running ten points ahead of -- you see the independent. that's a name you might remember from 2014. republicans with colyer were up ten. sub suit. kelly the democrat goes up by one. down ten for the democrats, up one, democrats say that's difference of having kobach and look, you get a midterm year in a climate favorable would help, too. >> a todd akin situation is what democrats are looking at there. thank you very much. much appreciated. we'll be right back. stay with us. ♪

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